Linux wget, how to display progress percentage after session has reload?

I am running debian Squeeze in console mode on a plug computer. I control it opening an SSH session from a Windows machine, on the same local network.

I started downloading a large file using wget.

What I get is a console progress bar showing the percentage of data downloaded, file size, and download rate.

When I close the session, debian is still running and downloading. Fine.

But When I close and reopen a session, how can see which amount of data was downloaded, using a linux command ?

thanks.

skyrail

Posted 2012-11-10T00:46:22.460

Reputation: 114

Answers

You probably want to use a program like screen or tmux to preserve your remote terminal sessions while you're not connected.

Michael Hampton

Posted 2012-11-10T00:46:22.460

Reputation: 11 744

There is another solution. Install a vnc server, and access it from another machine, opening a vnc session. I just get the debian session in the state before leaving. – skyrail – 2012-11-15T16:23:34.900

To answer "how can see which amount of data was downloaded, using a linux command?" only, in the download directory use any of the follow

ls -l
ls -s
ls -sh <download filename>

That will show you the file size already download/written to your disk.

John Siu

Posted 2012-11-10T00:46:22.460

Reputation: 4 957

ok. Thank you both for you help. I finally found an easy solution: just look at the last line in wget-log which is written and updated by the task wget, while processing. wget write a line in the file and display it on screen. The problem is, I cannot see the display anymore, after I close session. I'll have a try to the screen command to see if it give me back the current display when i open a new ssh session, while wget-log is still growing. – skyrail – 2012-11-10T16:59:36.327

wget normally logs its output to the wget-log file in the download directory. To display this file and its changes, execute the following command in the download directory:

$ tail -f wget-log

vmukhar

Posted 2012-11-10T00:46:22.460

Reputation: 21