This is intentional. Look in distrib/miniroot:
install.sub:FTPOPTS="-V"
We want the progress bar -- we just don't want any of the other noise.
I suppose with this change, and then using -Vm it could work. But that
would need testing. Especially since ftp(1) is compiled with -DSMALL.
grep SMALL /usr/src/*/ftp/*.[ch] | wc -l
265
> Does anyone else find it weird that -V doesn't turn off the progress
> bar?
>
> Index: main.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/ftp/main.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.85
> diff -u -p -r1.85 main.c
> --- main.c 26 Aug 2012 02:16:02 -0000 1.85
> +++ main.c 3 Sep 2012 02:10:20 -0000
> @@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ main(volatile int argc, char *argv[])
>
> case 'V':
> verbose = 0;
> + progress = 0;
> break;
>
> default:
