How to wget without leaving putty on

[Putin]

using -b puts it in the background

if you support nohup you could run;

nohup wget http://website.com/file.bin &

and like people have said above , the screen command works as well.

Putin Reviewed by Putin on 28th Apr 2012. How to wget without leaving putty on Hey Guys I wanted to ask u is there a way i can wget without leaving the putty on as i need to wget 80gbs folder to another server of mine and i have some connection problems in my home connection ie if putty closes the wget also gets closed i think so is there a way to auto wget without me being connected to the net ? Rating: 5