sometime when I use wget to recursively download a website, I made a mistake and want abortion.
I've Searched over and over and no luck
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A:
What shell are you running wget from? In many shells, CTRL+C will cancel the currently-running process. If you are running a Linux shell, pkill -9 wget should be able to force-kill it if it's running in the background.
bta
2010-08-04 23:47:15
+1 for `pkill -9 wget`
chelmertz
2010-10-14 07:49:10
A:
send a interuption signal.
- In the same console you can do Ctrl+C
- In other console than the one you are using:
pkill -9 wget
Phong
2010-08-04 23:55:17