this works but no size in output: wget -nv --output-file=wget.txt _url_ I found a reference to a 2007 post asking for: 3) add support for turning off the progress bar with --progress=none 4) perhaps disable the progress bar if -O - is specified
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09575.html I believe -S (if set) should also be on if -O is specified (even with -q or -nv) Paul On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:06 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use wget with --append-output=filename in order to save a log of a > downloading session. > > Is it possible to tell wget to not write any progress indication > (dots/bars) to the output file? When logging to a file the indication > doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes the log file larger, and for very > large files, you can end up with screenfuls of dots in the log file. (I'm > using --progress=dots:mega to reduce the number of dots in the output > already.) > > > Mark > > >
