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[Mads Laursen <dossen+sgl AT daimi.au.dk>]

On 08/08/02 19.07, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> A couple comments to throw in...
> 
> I too have seen the animated bar, which is much more compact. I'm not sure 
> if it is a http vs. ftp thing, or more likely a known-filesize vs. 
> unknown.
>From the wget man page:

 --progress=type
     Select the type of the progress indicator you wish to
     use.  Legal indicators are ``dot'' and ``bar''.

     The ``bar'' indicator is used by default.  It draws an
     ASCII progress bar graphics (a.k.a ``thermometer''
     display) indicating the status of retrieval.  If the
     output is not a TTY, the ``dot'' bar will be used by
     default.

     Use --progress=dot to switch to the ``dot'' display.
     It traces the retrieval by printing dots on the
     screen, each dot representing a fixed amount of down-
     loaded data.

     When using the dotted retrieval, you may also set the
     style by specifying the type as dot:style.  Different
     styles assign different meaning to one dot.  With the
     "default" style each dot represents 1K, there are ten
     dots in a cluster and 50 dots in a line.  The "binary"
     style has a more ``computer''-like orientation---8K
     dots, 16-dots clusters and 48 dots per line (which
     makes for 384K lines).  The "mega" style is suitable
     for downloading very large files---each dot represents
     64K retrieved, there are eight dots in a cluster, and
     48 dots on each line (so each line contains 3M).

     Note that you can set the default style using the
     "progress" command in .wgetrc.  That setting may be
     overridden from the command line.  The exception is
     that, when the output is not a TTY, the ``dot''
     progress will be favored over ``bar''.  To force the
     bar output, use --progress=bar:force.

So there you have it. Add the right option to the calls to wget, or it
will sence whether it has a tty, and act accordingly.

/dossen