Detecting i f file is complete

linuxmandrake · 01-13-2006, 09:19 PM

Say I am downloading a file using wget. Is it possible to have a program scan that file to see if it's completely finished downloading then shutdown the computer. Occsionally because of work I need to download large files which takes ages to download even on 1mb connection. I dont want my electircity bill to be sky high. Upgrading to faster connection isn't an option because too far away from my local exchange. I use bittorrent protocol and i cant seem to find a client that does this.

TruongAn · 01-13-2006, 09:51 PM

Try this:

Code:

wget something && poweroff

When wget finish downloading, it exit and poweroff will run to shutdown your computer

macemoneta · 01-13-2006, 10:00 PM

Why not:

$ wget http://some.com/somefile.zip ; sudo shutdown -h now