Getting WGET to display a less verbose output

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?

4 Answers

You can use -nv or --no-verbose to make wget less verbose, but it won't show download progress in that case.

1

There's an answer on StackOverflow that does this:

wget -q --show-progress 

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

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

3

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

wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll 

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

wget -q --show-progress 

Try curl instead...

$ curl "" -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 "" -o nul -#
######### 13,3%

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