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How can I show the wget progress bar only?

Asked 2011-01-13T23:22:21.630
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For example:

wget http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg

    downloading: TheFile.tar.gz ...
    --09:30:42--  http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg
               => `/home/me/Downloads/TheFile.jpeg'
    Resolving somesite.co... xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
    Connecting to somesite.co|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 1,614,820 (1.5M) [image/jpeg]

    25% [======>                              ] 614,424      173.62K/s    ETA 00:14

How can I get it to look like the following?

    downloading: TheFile.jpeg ...
    25% [======>                              ] 614,424      173.62K/s    ETA 00:14

I know curl can do that. However, I need to get wget to do that job.

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You can use standard options:

wget --progress=bar http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg
answered 2012-11-06T13:45:43.690

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