How can I show the wget progress bar only?

For example:

wget http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg

    downloading: TheFile.tar.gz ...
    --09:30:42--  http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg
               => `/home/me/Downloads/TheFile.jpeg'
    Resolving somesite.co... xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
    Connecting to somesite.co|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 1,614,820 (1.5M) [image/jpeg]

    25% [======>                              ] 614,424      173.62K/s    ETA 00:14

How can I get it to look like the following?

    downloading: TheFile.jpeg ...
    25% [======>                              ] 614,424      173.62K/s    ETA 00:14

I know curl can do that. However, I need to get wget to do that job.

Use:

wget http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg -q --show-progress

• -q: Turn off wget's output

• --show-progress: Force wget to display the progress bar no matter what its verbosity level is set to

You can use the following filter:

progressfilt ()
{
    local flag=false c count cr=$'\r' nl=$'\n'
    while IFS='' read -d '' -rn 1 c
    do
        if $flag
        then
            printf '%s' "$c"
        else
            if [[ $c != $cr && $c != $nl ]]
            then
                count=0
            else
                ((count++))
                if ((count > 1))
                then
                    flag=true
                fi
            fi
        fi
    done
}

Usage:

$ wget --progress=bar:force http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg 2>&1 | progressfilt
100%[======================================>] 15,790      48.8K/s   in 0.3s

2011-01-13 22:09:59 (48.8 KB/s) - 'TheFile.jpeg' saved [15790/15790]

This function depends on a sequence of 0x0d0x0a0x0d0x0a0x0d being sent right before the progress bar is started. This behavior may be implementation dependent.

Run using these flags:

wget -q --show-progress --progress=bar:force 2>&1

You can use the follow option of tail:

wget somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg --progress=bar:force 2>&1 | tail -f -n +6

The +6 is to delete the first 6 lines. It may be different on your version of wget or your language.

You need to use --progress=bar:force otherwise wget switches to the dot type.

The downside is that the refreshing is less frequent than with wget (looks like every 2 seconds). The --sleep-interval option of tail seems to be meant just for that, but it didn't change anything for me.

The option --show-progress, as pointed out by others, is the best option, but it is available only since GNU wget 1.16, see Noteworthy changes in wget 1.16.

To be safe, we can first check if --show-progress is supported:

# set progress option accordingly
wget --help | grep -q '\--show-progress' && \
  _PROGRESS_OPT="-q --show-progress" || _PROGRESS_OPT=""

wget $_PROGRESS_OPT ...

Maybe it's time to consider just using curl.

You can use standard options:

wget --progress=bar http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg

This is another example:

download() {
    local url=$1
    echo -n "    "
    wget --progress=dot $url 2>&1 | grep --line-buffered "%" | sed -u -e "s,\.,,g" | awk '{printf("\b\b\b\b%4s", $2)}'
    echo -ne "\b\b\b\b"
    echo " DONE"
}

Here is a solution that will show you a dot for each file (or line, for that matter). It is particularly useful if you are downloading with --recursive. This won't catch errors and may be slightly off if there are extra lines, but for general progress on a lot of files it is helpful:

wget -r -nv https://example.com/files/ | \
    awk -v "ORS=" '{ print "."; fflush(); } END { print "\n" }'

This is not literally an answer but this snippet might also be helpful to some coming here for e.g. "zenity wget GUI":

LANG=C wget -O /dev/null --progress=bar:force:noscroll --limit-rate 5k http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/ChangeLog 2>&1 | stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 tr '>' '\n' | stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 sed -rn 's/^.*\<([0-9]+)%\[.*$/\1/p' | zenity --progress --auto-close

What was crucial for me is stdbuf(1).