remove the bit per bit log of wget

Question

I have a php script that generates bash commands to wget files. I am trying to log wget activity using this:

--directory-prefix='xxx' --append-output='xxx.txt' -c -t0 -S"

But the log is too big due to this:

 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0%  110K 14m5s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0%  230K 10m24s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0%  272K 8m49s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0% 41.7K 15m53s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0%  173M 12m42s
.
.
.
92800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%  156K 0s
92850K .......... .......... ...                             100%  139K=7m56s

Can I remove the output above and let wget to only get this:

Warning: wildcards not supported in HTTP.
--2015-03-14 20:10:22--  xxxx
Resolving xxxx... xxxx
Connecting to xxxx|xxxx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
  Server: nginx/1.4.4
  Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:09:58 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html
  Content-Length: 194
  Connection: keep-alive
  WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="xxxx"
Reusing existing connection to xxxx:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: nginx/1.4.4
  Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:09:58 GMT
  Content-Type: application/octet-stream
  Content-Length: 95102657
  Last-Modified: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 04:54:04 GMT
  Connection: keep-alive
  ETag: "5312b96c-5ab26c1"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
Length: 95102657 (91M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `xxxx.mkv'
Warning: wildcards not supported in HTTP.
--2015-03-14 20:10:22--  xxxx
Resolving xxxx... xxxx
Connecting to xxxx|xxxx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
  Server: nginx/1.4.4
  Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:09:58 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html
  Content-Length: 194
  Connection: keep-alive
  WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="xxxx"
Reusing existing connection to xxxx:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: nginx/1.4.4
  Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:09:58 GMT
  Content-Type: application/octet-stream
  Content-Length: 95102657
  Last-Modified: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 04:54:04 GMT
  Connection: keep-alive
  ETag: "5312b96c-5ab26c1"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
Length: 95102657 (91M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `xxxx.mkv'

2015-03-14 20:18:19 (195 KB/s) - `xxxx.mkv' saved [95102657/95102657]

I am consuming too much space just because of this log if I'm only interested with the real details.

Answer 1

You can turn off a lot of output with the -nv option. If that's too little verbosity for you, you can tune the progress report with the --progress option, but I think you can't remove it altogether. The dot:mega report style produces one dot per 64kB (instead of the default with a dot per 1kB).

wget --progress=dot:mega …

Recent versions also support dot:giga (a dot per 1MB).