Re: [Bug-wget] Feature Request for non STDOUT Output

[Quintin Beukes]

My bad on STDOUT. I actually knew this (as can be seen with 2>&1 on my redirects).

Either way. Forcing the output to a progress bar gives a very unintelligible result. It's messy due to the control characters that has to be sent to "clear" the line for the new bar to be printed. Here's an example:
^M 0% [                                     ] 0             --.--K/s             ^M 5% [>                                    ] 2,351,152     11.21M/s             ^M10% [==>                                  ] 4,705,600     11.22M/s             ^M15% [====>                                ] 7,060,048     11.22M/s             ^M21% [======>                              ] 9,414,496     11.22M/s             ^M26% [========>                            ] 11,768,944    11.22M/s             ^M31% [==========>                          ] 14,123,392    11.22M/s             ^M36% [============>                        ] 16,477,840    11.22M/s             ^M42% [==============>                      ] 18,832,288    11.22M/s             ^M47% [================>                    ] 21,186,736    11.22M/s             ^M52% [==================>                  ] 23,541,184    11.22M/s             ^M58% [====================>                ] 25,895,632    11.22M/s             ^M63% [======================>              ] 28,250,080    11.22M/s             ^M68% [========================>            ] 30,603,080    11.22M/s             ^M73% [==========================>          ] 32,957,528    11.22M/s             ^M79% [============================>        ] 35,311,976    11.22M/s    ETA 00:00^M84% [==============================>      ] 37,666,424    11.22M/s    ETA 00:00^M89% [================================>    ] 40,020,872    11.22M/s    ETA 00:00^M95% [==================================>  ] 42,375,320    11.22M/s    ETA 00:00^M100%[====================================>] 44,546,403    11.22M/s    ETA 00:00

It gives an eta, but not a friendly output. 

Maybe having another "--progress" option like "dot:witheta". This might be a bit stupid. I wouldn't have done it this way. Personally I feel a --eta[=<yes|no|auto>] or something would work well.

Q

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

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Quintin Beukes wrote:
> The output looks like this:
>  4600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 94%
> 30.13 KB/s
>  4650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 95%
> 29.28 KB/s
>  4700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 96%
> 24.13 KB/s
>
>
> What's missing though is an "ETA" for completion like STDOUT has.

Hi. Tried using a newer version of Wget, >= 1.11 ? :)

Alternatively, you can add --progress=bar:force to force the same output
as you normally get on a terminal (which, FWIW, is actually on stderr).

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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