* Nick Hastings (hastings@bmail.kek.jp) [030205 01:30]: > Hi, > > * Dave Selby <dave_arahan@yahoo.co.uk> [030205 16:20]: > > When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the > > middle mouse button. > > > > Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very > > usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line. Sometimes Xterm > > is not ideal because it ceases when the user is changed. The same goes for > > the GUI ! > > > > Yep I am thinking of downloading long files via wget ! > > In that case you can still use X, you just need to nohup your wget. > eg. > > nohup wget http://whatever >& wget.log & > > man nohup > > for details. > > Actually there is probably something built into bash so that nohup is > not required... but I don't know about interactive bash. Right you are. When exiting, bash sends a HUP to everything on its list of active jobs iff the shell option huponexit is set (which it is by default). There's also a 'disown' builtin which can be used to tell bash not to SIGHUP a particular job, or even to remove the job from the table entirely. This can be used to tell bash that you want a given command to keep running after exit, rather than the blanket solution of 'shopt -u huponexit'. In short, 'disown -h' is probably closest to nohup, but if you really want to know how to do what you want to do, go read bash(1), now that I gave you clues what to look for =) Of course, zsh also provides '&!' and '&|' as syntactic sugar to sprinkle in place of 'command & ; disown' good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.aclu.org/ It's all about Freedom.
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