wget: Signals
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1 8.8 Signals
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1 Since the purpose of Wget is background work, it catches the hangup
1 signal (‘SIGHUP’) and ignores it. If the output was on standard output,
1 it will be redirected to a file named ‘wget-log’. Otherwise, ‘SIGHUP’
1 is ignored. This is convenient when you wish to redirect the output of
1 Wget after having started it.
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1 $ wget http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz &
1 ...
1 $ kill -HUP %%
1 SIGHUP received, redirecting output to `wget-log'.
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1 Other than that, Wget will not try to interfere with signals in any
1 way. ‘C-c’, ‘kill -TERM’ and ‘kill -KILL’ should kill it alike.
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