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How to hide wget output in Linux? [closed]


Why don't you use -q?

From man wget:

-q--quiet   Turn off Wget's output.

Test

$ wget www.google.com--2015-05-08 14:07:42--  http://www.google.com/Resolving www.google.com (www.google.com)...   (...)HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OKLength: unspecified [text/html]Saving to: ‘index.html’    [ <=>                                                                                       ] 17,913      --.-K/s   in 0.01s   2015-05-08 14:07:42 (1.37 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [17913]

And:

$ wget -q www.google.com$