Re: [Bug-wget] Feature Request: --progress enhancements

[Paul Wratt]

the first part would be useful

>..
>
> A further enhancement to the --progress option would be to present the
> (queue count / maxcount) as part of the progress display. After all, if a
> user sets --progress it is ostensibly to receive feedback on what wget is
> doing. At the moment I believe only the debug output presents this
> information and unless you write some helper code to parse out this
> information and present it more neatly it can be very tedious to try to read
> it as output scrolls by. Having it visible in the progress line would make
> checking it much simpler and it given that it is the only indication of
> wgets global progress seems like an appropriate thing to include.
>
You forget that wget is only doing 1 command at a time

if you are referring to --recursive then that would require output of
the "retrieve tree list" - and I think that would severely impact wget
performance - unless the was a way to talk(or view) directly with wget
(like thru proc fs)

if you mean --input-file you can use script to capture wget output to
keep track of which url is being process

dont forget wget is command line utility - not GUI app or even command
line app - there is big difference

Paul