[SOLVED] wget 1.16.2 displays progress bar despite using -q

lems · 03-07-2015, 09:51 AM

Hello,

apart from redirection, is there any way to suppress the progress bar with the new wget?

As an example, take ruario's latest-firefox script:

Code:

$ latest-firefox
-                   100[====================>]   1.04K  --.-KB/s   in 0s
Firefox (36.0.1) is already installed; exiting

This seems to be the only entry in wget's changelog that mentions the progress bar:

Code:

Allow progress bar on stderr when -o is used.

The man page clearly states the following regarding -q:

Code:

 -q
 --quiet
     Turn off Wget's output.

lems

mancha · 03-07-2015, 04:24 PM

Hi lems.

You've found a bug in wget 1.16.2. I've reviewed the code and developed wget-1.16.2_progress.diff that fixes.

--mancha

lems · 03-08-2015, 01:22 AM

Hello mancha,

thanks a lot! I wish I had those skills. I applied your patch, recompiled wget and now have the old behaviour back. Thanks again.

lems

Xsane · 03-08-2015, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lems

Hello,

Code:

$ latest-firefox
-                   100[====================>]   1.04K  --.-KB/s   in 0s
Firefox (36.0.1) is already installed; exiting

lems

Funny, I've actually wanted that behavior in the past, but could never find
a way to make wget cooperate. Seems like wget has always been all or nothing.
It would be great, IMHO, for slackpkg to have a simplified output like that.
Well, like that, but include the name of the file being downloaded... some
choice besides the verbosity of its default output. A '--terse' option?

lems · 03-08-2015, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xsane

Funny, I've actually wanted that behavior in the past, but could never find
a way to make wget cooperate. Seems like wget has always been all or nothing.
It would be great, IMHO, for slackpkg to have a simplified output like that.
Well, like that, but include the name of the file being downloaded... some
choice besides the verbosity of its default output. A '--terse' option?

I guess you're aware of it already, but maybe you're looking for -nv?

From the man page:

Code:

-nv
--no-verbose
    Turn off verbose without being completely quiet (use -q for that),
    which means that error messages and basic information still get
    printed.

edit: I've just tried it, it does not print a progress bar. Sorry for the noise! Output looks like this:

Code:

2015-03-08 16:35:52 URL:http://ftp.slackware.at/data/slackware64-14.1/slackware64/tcl/tk-8.6.1-x86_64-1.txz [1740220/1740220] -> "/tmp/slackware64-14.1/slackware64/tcl/tk-8.6.1-x86_64-1.txz" [1]
2015-03-08 16:35:52 URL:http://ftp.slackware.at/data/slackware64-14.1/slackware64/tcl/tk-8.6.1-x86_64-1.txz.asc [198/198] -> "/tmp/slackware64-14.1/slackware64/tcl/tk-8.6.1-x86_64-1.txz.asc" [1]

edit II: wget -q --show-progress does what you want, I guess. Output:

Code:

tk-8.6.1-x86_64-1.t 100[=====================>]   1.66M  1.79MB/s   in 0.9s

I now see that this was the new feature mancha mentioned in the patch.
From the man page:

Code:

--show-progress
    Force wget to display the progress bar in any verbosity.
    By default, wget only displays the progress bar in verbose mode.
    One may however, want wget to display the progress bar on screen in
    conjunction with any other verbosity modes like --no-verbose or
    --quiet.  This is often a desired a property when invoking wget to
    download several small/large files.  In such a case, wget could
    simply be invoked with this parameter to get a much cleaner output
    on the screen.

    This option will also force the progress bar to be printed to
    stderr when used alongside the --logfile option.

I don't use slackpkg, but can't you add ``-q --show-progress'' to WGETFLAGS in slackpkg.conf?

Xsane · 03-09-2015, 06:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lems

... but can't you add ``-q --show-progress'' to WGETFLAGS in slackpkg.conf?

Looks like when I have the new wget I can