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tola5

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Registered: 2010-08-14

Posts: 1

get aria2 to work whit tail -f

hi  I have setup a Arch linux box up why  I only use it  through ssh so I like to get me download  to run in background
and then be able to view the status of the download whit tail -f I have goolge and  can only fine http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … nd-769997/
but  I cant get it to work  aria2c -i urls.txt -j 3 -s 4 > /home/tola5/dl.log 2>&1 I have also try just whit a http link  what do I doing worng

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: get aria2 to work whit tail -f

aria2c -c -i list.txt -j4 > /var/log/aria2c.log 2>&1 &

I think you forgot the last "&" - to put it in the background.

If that's not your problem, please write clearly what is - "I cant get it to work" is not very helpful.