Darshit Shah <dar...@gmail.com> writes: > This affects an invokation using the shell's background operator (&) too. > > E.g.: wget > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-8.1.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso > & > will cause the logging output and progress bar to be displayed on the > terminal as explained in the bug report. > > However, I am not willing to fix that behaviour. A huge number of > people copy URLs and paste them in their terminals for Wget to > download without double-quoting them. A large number of these URLs > have the "&" character which causes the shell to background the > process. They tend to realise that something went wrong when the > screen is garbled by a background process spewing messages to stdout > and stderr. If this behaviour is changed, many people won't realise > their error and un-necessarily invoke multiple instances of > backgrounded Wget processes, eventually coming back here with new bug > reports. > > The bahviour has remained so for a long time and I'm inclined to > retain the status quo.
I agree with you here, the behavior should not be changed. It would be a bug if wget stops reporting errors when resumed. Regards, Giuseppe
