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

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.