Signals (GNU Wget 1.21.1-dirty Manual)
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8.8 Signals
Since the purpose of Wget is background work, it catches the hangup signal (SIGHUP
) and ignores it. If the output was on standard output, it will be redirected to a file named wget-log
. Otherwise, SIGHUP
is ignored. This is convenient when you wish to redirect the output of Wget after having started it.
$ wget http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz & ... $ kill -HUP %% SIGHUP received, redirecting output to `wget-log'.
Other than that, Wget will not try to interfere with signals in any way. C-c, kill -TERM
and kill -KILL
should kill it alike.