Tim Ruehsen <[email protected]> writes: > Am Tuesday 05 June 2012 schrieb Hrvoje Niksic: >> I'd like to suggest that the new --bit option be named --bps instead. >> The use case for this option is reporting of download speed in [gmk]bps, >> not expressing all quantities in bits. Besides, the word "bit" has >> other meanings (small piece), while "bps" is quite recognizable to the >> target audience for the option. > > I would like to see --report-bps. It explains itself, well, at least better > than --bps which could be anything.
Good point. To me --report-bps is also an improvement over --bits. > To regard the current question of Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> (bug- > wget 5.6.2012) (Is there any way to make wget report download speed in Kbps > not MBps at the end of the transfer?): > > --report-bps replaces --bit > --report-[gmkn]bps would respect the user's demand for explicitly gbps, mbps > and kbps, with nbps = plain bps without giga, mega or kilo. > > What do you think ? I think that Wget has already way too many options. :) Note that you also can't choose how the download speed will be shown with byte reporting. But while we're bikeshedding, how about: --report-speed=(bps|nbps|kbps|...) and additional features can be added later as syntax additions to the value recognized by that option.
