<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nthiebaud@gmail.com">nthiebaud@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">The reason wget does not show the progress bar unless you force it to,</div></div>
is because the output, here, is piped to a file.<br>
presenting progress bar and putting the output in a file make for a<br>
big and ugly log file.<br>
At the very least you don't want --progress=bar:force but --progress=dot:mega</blockquote><div> </div><div>Sigh, so we can't have our cake and eat it too... I really appreciate having feedback for downloads. However, the log file doesn't need it, only the user. Do you think --progress=dot:mega is acceptable for log file niceness? There would still be the chatter with the server coming through due to having to remove the "-nv" (non-verbose) switch.</div>
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