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
                   


        

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