Progress info from wget or curl?

[Mark Wieder]

Richard-

Sunday, November 2, 2014, 8:59:25 AM, you wrote:

>  > /usr/local/bin/wget --no-check-certificate --config=/etc/wgetrc -O-
>  > --content-on-error -o /dev/null

> The options for displaying progress in the terminal work well, but how
> can we call that from LiveCode to obtain that progress info periodically
> while the command is executing from the "shell" function?

get shell("/usr/local/bin/wget <options>...

in particular, the -O- error will give you the info that normally just
goes to the screen. I use the --content-on-error argument to receive
information even if wget runs into an error, and the -o /dev/null
argument is because wget has an annoying habit of putting "..." into
the output stream as a means of telling you it's still working. If
you're getting the wget output as above then the "..." gets mixed in
with the data, and the -o option sends the status data to /dev/null.

try "wget --help" for a dizzying list of options

> Is there a way to use "open process" for that?

Probably, but shell does the job quite well.

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