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?
You can use -nv or --no-verbose to make wget less verbose, but it won't show download progress in that case.
answered Jun 16 '11 at 13:07
There's an answer on StackOverflow that does this:
wget -q --show-progress http://example.com
--show-progress will override the "quiet" flag.
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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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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/...
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%
