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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers background job Post 72869 by babayeve on Wednesday 25th of May 2005 08:21:42 AM
Old 05-25-2005
background job
on gnome i open a terminal and run wget http://soommmething & in the background. because wget shows me downloading progress percentage and download speed continuously, I exit the gnome-terminal

after a while i want to see the download percentage but dont know how. my ps -u myname shows that wget is running

ps -u emilb | grep wget

4178 ? 00:00:01 wget

so my tty is ? now. how can assing this process to a terminal so that i can see its output.

this is of course not a problem handicaping my work or anything but I want to know just out of curiosity

thanks
emil babayev
 

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gnome-keyboard-layout

gnome-keyboard-layout(1)					   User Commands					  gnome-keyboard-layout(1)

NAME

       gnome-keyboard-layout - set your keyboard layout

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-keyboard-layout [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-keyboard-layout enables you to select a locale mapping for your keyboard.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching gnome-keyboard-layout

       example% gnome-keyboard-layout

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-Executable to set your keyboard layout

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-utility_applets    |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gkb_xmmap(1), gnome-keybinding-properties(1), gnome-keyboard-properties(1), xmodmap(1), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    6 Sep 2004						  gnome-keyboard-layout(1)
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