Re: [Bug-wget] Feature Request for non STDOUT Output

[Micah Cowan]

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Quintin Beukes wrote:
> My bad on STDOUT. I actually knew this (as can be seen with 2>&1 on my
> redirects).
> 
> Either way. Forcing the output to a progress bar gives a very
> unintelligible result. It's messy due to the control characters that has
> to be sent to "clear" the line for the new bar to be printed. Here's an
> example:

<snip>

> It gives an eta, but not a friendly output.

Well, quite: but you had mentioned you were tail-ing it in another
terminal. It seemed suitable for that purpose.

> Maybe having another "--progress" option like "dot:witheta". This might
> be a bit stupid. I wouldn't have done it this way. Personally I feel a
> --eta[=<yes|no|auto>] or something would work well.

As I've already mentioned, newer versions of Wget already do what you
ask, without additional options.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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