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by ehPReth 710 days ago
is there a way to make curl do wget style progress output? i like curl but would love that kind of meter
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"curl --progress-bar" does that

"wcurl --opts="--progress-bar" URL"

I was wondering if that should be the default for wcurl, but the bar only works for downloading single files, I was afraid of users thinking there's a bug whenever they downloaded more than one file if the bar wasn't there anymore.

It isn't exactly what you are asking for but could be adapted to do that: https://github.com/dryark/curl_progress