Getting WGET to display a less verbose output

Is it possible to get WGET to only show download progress e.g. download bar, opposed to all of the connection info, as it does look a little ugly on the client side, is this possible to do?

Solution 1:

You can use -nv or --no-verbose to make wget less verbose, but it won't show download progress in that case.

Solution 2:

There's an answer on StackOverflow that does this:

wget -q --show-progress http://example.com

--show-progress will override the "quiet" flag.

Solution 3:

The following option works great to show minimum progress without complete silence like -q:

wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://repo.anaconda.com/...

For wget 1.16+, use -q --show-progress to show the progress bar only, as mentioned in an earlier answer.

wget -q --show-progress https://repo.anaconda.com/...