Bristol Digest, Vol 585, Issue 2

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: How to download overnight? (Dave Stewart)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:46:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dave Stewart <bblug@iridium.org.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] How to download overnight?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1501121140450.15670@copper.oucs.ox.ac.uk>
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Marc Gray wrote:

> ?Seriously?

I'd even be tempted to wrap wget in a loop and invoke it as wget -c $URL,
just in case there's an interruption half way through.

> OK, but I can't have this.
>
> sudo bash -c 'su $SUDO_USER -c wget http://url/file.iso; shutdown -h now'

I'm pretty sure that won't work as written. Spotting the mistake is left
as an exercise for the reader ;-)

--
Dave Stewart

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