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<!-- Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. -->
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<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: curl -->
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# "PROGRESS METER"
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curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the
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amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. The
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progress meter displays the transfer rate in bytes per second. The suffixes
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(k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576
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bytes.
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curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to
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do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it *disables*
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the progress meter as otherwise it would mess up the output mixing progress
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meter and response data.
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If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to
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redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), --output or
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similar.
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This does not apply to FTP upload as that operation does not spit out any
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response data to the terminal.
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If you prefer a progress "bar" instead of the regular meter, --progress-bar is
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your friend. You can also disable the progress meter completely with the
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--silent option.
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