How to show wget progress bar only?

Use:

wget http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg -q --show-progress

• -q: Turn off wget's output

• --show-progress: Force wget to display the progress bar no matter what its verbosity level is set to

You can use the following filter:

progressfilt ()
{
    local flag=false c count cr=$'\r' nl=$'\n'
    while IFS='' read -d '' -rn 1 c
    do
        if $flag
        then
            printf '%s' "$c"
        else
            if [[ $c != $cr && $c != $nl ]]
            then
                count=0
            else
                ((count++))
                if ((count > 1))
                then
                    flag=true
                fi
            fi
        fi
    done
}

Usage:

$ wget --progress=bar:force http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg 2>&1 | progressfilt
100%[======================================>] 15,790      48.8K/s   in 0.3s

2011-01-13 22:09:59 (48.8 KB/s) - 'TheFile.jpeg' saved [15790/15790]

This function depends on a sequence of 0x0d0x0a0x0d0x0a0x0d being sent right before the progress bar is started. This behavior may be implementation dependent.

Use using these flags:

wget  -q --show-progress --progress=bar:force 2>&1