14 Nov
2005
14 Nov
'05
9:41 p.m.
Le 14 Novembre 2005 12:48, IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
Marc Lavallée wrote:
I think it *is* better to use the & operator of the shell when using [shell].
I don't think so. & sends the curl process in the background. You don't want that.
but why not ? you could poll the filename for existance (somehow), to see when the file is finally downloaded. of course this will only work for applications that do not have any direct feedback.
Because there's no output when appending "&" after a command. To collect the output of a background process, "expect" seems more appropriate than bash (http://expect.nist.gov/) -- Marc