Command for viewing wget in progress?

lectraplayer · 09-25-2005, 08:10 PM

Is there a switch or something that will show wget's progress? I'm trying to set my Phosphor screensaver so that it first prints dmesg and then wget's progress, one after the other. Can that be done? ...or will I have to print an output file to be able to get my realtime stats of wget visible through this screensaver?

edong23 · 09-25-2005, 10:04 PM

hm, i am very confused to what you are doing, but if you are wanting to ... i dont konw.... but you can do a watch with commands... for instance... you could say

watch du

in a terminal and you can watch teh disk fill up if you are downloading or cping files..

you could try the watch command with what you are trying,, but if you could explain alittel better, i am seeing wget and screensaver, and dmesg, which dont realy have anyting to do with eachother... right??

lectraplayer · 09-26-2005, 09:33 PM

W-Get will show a status-readout on what it's doing as it's working, right? I'm wanting to carry this status readout over to a screensaver that places text on the screen and applies an effect (the Phosphor screensaver, it looks like those old terminals). The screensaver runs commands and displays their output (dmesg is one prime example of a program this screensaver does great with). I just want the screensaver to show wget's output when I have wget going in another terminal (maybe if I've invoked it from kterminal to nab an iso or something, and the screensaver comes up during that process).

edong23 · 09-28-2005, 02:24 AM

hm... you got me.... all i ever see is

downloading from ww..w..w.. >===================================100 done

or something like that

wouldnt be much of a screen savet
but

i dont thnk i can help you... im sorry.

lectraplayer · 09-28-2005, 08:59 PM

That's what I want to see from time to time on my screensaver. It can print some system specs (like dmsg) and then print what wget's doing at that time. It will go through the two (or whatever else I add). It shouldn't just show only what wget's doing at all times, just when the screensaver just happens to check (by sending a command to BASH).

Have you seen the Phosphor screensaver? Some flavors of Linux, such as SuSE, RedHat, and Debian have it. You set it up by telling it what commands to run, as well as telling it what you want the text to look like, and it will cycle through the commands you give it continuously. Makes a better screensaver than you think with just dmsg!