For a huge download, put the download in background using wget option -b as shown below.
wget -b http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
Displays:
Continuing in background, pid 1984.
Output will be written to `wget-log'.
It will initiate the download and gives back the shell prompt to you. You can always check the status of the download using tail -f as shown below.
tail -f wget-log
Displays:
Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2.4'
0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% 65.5K 57s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 2% 85.9K 49s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 3% 83.3K 47s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 5% 86.6K 45s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 6% 33.9K 56s
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 7% 182M 46s
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 9% 57.9K 47s
Also, make sure to review our previous multitail article on how to use tail command effectively to view multiple files.