Getting WGET to display a less verbose output

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Is it possible to get WGET to only show download progress e.g. download bar, opposed to all of the connection info, as it does look a little ugly on the client side, is this possible to do?

score 94 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 03 '23 at 15:52

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You can use:

wget --no-verbose ...
wget -nv ...

to make wget less verbose. When I saw "less verbose" I mean that you get:

one printed line of text with the file name for each download
no progress bar

edited Jan 03 '23 at 15:52

Trevor Boyd Smith

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answered Jun 16 '11 at 13:07

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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This doesn't show the progress bar... – JoeNahmias Aug 05 '19 at 14:04

Michael · Answer 2 · 2022-02-01T18:13:59.053

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There's an answer on StackOverflow that does this:

wget -q --show-progress http://example.com

--show-progress will override the "quiet" flag.

_{For wget <1.16, use this excellent answer instead.}

edited Feb 01 '22 at 18:13

answered Feb 09 '16 at 20:09

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should be the accepted answer as it relates to wget specifically. – cerd Jun 22 '17 at 22:47
This answer still makes it spam the stdout with a gigantic progress bar. In the comments of the answer you linked however there's a solution, together with -q and --show-progress, you should add: --progress=bar:force:noscroll – Vinícius M Feb 28 '20 at 13:40
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In wget 1.14: `unrecognized option '--show-progress'` – Noam Manos Jun 25 '20 at 12:19

score 17 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 12 '21 at 18:07

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The following option works great to show minimum progress without complete silence like -q:

wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://repo.anaconda.com/...

For wget 1.16+, use -q --show-progress to show the progress bar only, as mentioned in an earlier answer.

wget -q --show-progress https://repo.anaconda.com/...

edited Jan 12 '21 at 18:07

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answered May 13 '20 at 20:12

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This is the best answer, if you're reading this after 2020. – problemofficer - n.f. Monica Jun 30 '22 at 16:38

u1686_grawity · Answer 4 · 2011-06-16T14:00:30.690

Try curl instead...

$ curl "http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.21.6.tar.lzma" -o nul
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 11 1838k   11  213k    0     0   7996      0  0:03:55  0:00:27  0:03:28 18096

...or curl -#:

$ curl "http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.21.6.tar.lzma" -o nul -#
#########                                                                 13,3%

Getting WGET to display a less verbose output

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