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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

Emil,

I dont think that is possible. Once a process loses its controlling terminal, you can no longer see the output that it would be sending to that terminal. A workaround would be to redirect the stdout and stderr to a file and view the file later.

.... or 'nohup' the process and 'tail -f nohup.out'

thanks everybody. it was actually not a problem for me. as you said, i can redirect the output. I just wondered if it was possible or not.

thanks anyway.

bye.