-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk+GdUACgkQ7M8hyUobTrFiCgCffpbe1aZakwMDVfglQwxrkZhI WnIAn3g0OleJ2aFxtrQWxE0xaxQZZ+1q =68iK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
