Hide wget output in Linux

linux bash wget

Ashot Khachatryan · May 8, 2015 · Viewed 61.4k times · Source

I don't want to see any message when I use wget.

I tried wget with -q -O options and redirection to /dev/null but I still see unwanted messages.

EDIT Sorry everyone, there was another wget in my script which printed messages :) &> /dev/null was enough for me.

Answer

Why don't you use -q?

From man wget:

-q
--quiet
   Turn off Wget's output.

Test

$ wget www.google.com
--2015-05-08 14:07:42--  http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com (www.google.com)... 
  (...)
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

    [ <=>                                                                                       ] 17,913      --.-K/s   in 0.01s   

2015-05-08 14:07:42 (1.37 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [17913]

And:

$ wget -q www.google.com
$

Hide wget output in Linux

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