How to show wget progress bar only?

Question

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 this

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.

Answer 1

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