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You can use -nv or --no-verbose to make wget less verbose, but it won't show download progress in that case. Show activity on this post. --show-progress will override the "quiet" flag.
Downloading a file In order to download a file using Wget, type wget followed by the URL of the file that you wish to download. Wget will download the file in the given URL and save it in the current directory.
wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, and retrieval through HTTP proxies.
Save with different file name By default, downloaded file will be saved with the last name mentioned in the URL. To save file with a different name option O can be used. Syntax: wget -O <fileName><URL>
Use q flag for quiet mode, and tell wget to output to stdout with O- (uppercase o) and redirect to /dev/null to discard the output:
wget -qO- $url &> /dev/null
> redirects application output (to a file). if > is preceded by ampersand, shell redirects all outputs (error and normal) to the file right of >. If you don't specify ampersand, then only normal output is redirected.
./app &> file # redirect error and standard output to file
./app > file # redirect standard output to file
./app 2> file # redirect error output to file
if file is /dev/null then all is discarded.
This works as well, and simpler:
wget -O/dev/null -q $url
Curl does that by default without any parameters or flags, I would use it for your purposes:
curl $url > /dev/null 2>&1
Curl is more about streams and wget is more about copying sites based on this comparison.
You can use -O- (uppercase o) to redirect content to the stdout (standard output) or to a file (even special files like /dev/null /dev/stderr /dev/stdout )
wget -O- http://yourdomain.com
Or:
wget -O- http://yourdomain.com > /dev/null
Or: (same result as last command)
wget -O/dev/null http://yourdomain.com
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