Sometimes you may need to run the wget under a silent mode, means it will not display any output on the screen while executing. Usually the wget used to display a progress line when its downloading any file. If you want to hide that progress bar, just use -nv option from wget. nv stands for non verbose mode. An example,
This is very useful when you are executing this kind of command from your script. Sometimes you want to download a large file form your script, or shell and want to push the command as background process. This command will be helpful for you when that time.
Cheers!!
wget "http://icfun.blogspot.com" -O test.html --nv &
This is very useful when you are executing this kind of command from your script. Sometimes you want to download a large file form your script, or shell and want to push the command as background process. This command will be helpful for you when that time.
Cheers!!
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Startup:
-V, --version display the version of Wget and exit.
-h, --help print this help.
-b, --background go to background after startup.
-e, --execute=COMMAND execute a `.wgetrc'-style command.
In GNU Wget 1.13.4 built on freebsd8.2.
Startup:
-V, --version display the version of Wget and exit.
-h, --help print this help.
-b, --background go to background after startup.
-e, --execute=COMMAND execute a `.wgetrc'-style command.
--nv is not valid