Progress bar does not display correctly when redirecting output in any way

[MarcoPeraza]

Brief description of your issue

winget progress bars become line noise when redirecting to a file (in either cmd.exe or powershell) or when piping to tee or out-default (in powershell). I don't think there's a way to turn off the progress bar, so no way to avoid your terminal and log files getting spammed if you want to save output to a file.

Winget's internal logging functionality is not a solution to this issue. Consider a script that does many things, where running winget is just a small part. You often want to capture the entire output of the script, including the winget output, into a single log file. Having separate logfiles for all winget invocations doesn't really allow that. I often redirect the output of large powershell programs, which might invoke dozens of other scripts and executables along the way.

I guess there's two related issues here:

• The gibberish being produced on screen and in log files
• The inability to turn off the progress bar. Would be useful for fully-automated scenarios with logging.

Steps to reproduce

# Save output to log.txt but still display output in terminal
winget install -e Microsoft.PowerToys | tee log.txt 

#  Or just redirect to a file  (cmd.exe _OR_ powershell/pwsh)
winget install -e Microsoft.PowerToys > log.txt

# Curiously, you get the same behavior with out-default, which is supposed to be a no-op
winget install -e Microsoft.PowerToys | Out-Default

Expected behavior

A pretty progress bar in the terminal and/or log files without pages of gibberish.

Actual behavior

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If you are downloading a large file and/or have a slow connection, you can easily have many tens or even hundreds of these lines.

Environment

Windows Package Manager (Preview) v1.4.2161-preview
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.25217.1000
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.19.2161.0

[Absoblogginlutely]

The same issue also occurs with winget -list - not just related to the install packages.

[Trenly]

[Policy] Area-Output

[Andrew-J-Larson]

Same issue for upgrade as well, very annoying to work with.

[asheroto]

Here is the workaround I came up with. Not perfect, but it works until the spinner / progress bar can be turned off.

This method streams output in real-time, eliminating the wait to view results until after command completion.

function Strip-Progress {
    param(
        [ScriptBlock]$ScriptBlock
    )

    # regex pattern to match spinner characters and progress bar patterns
    $pattern = 'Γû[Æê]|[-\\|/]'

    # Execute the script block and process its output
    & $ScriptBlock 2>&1 | ForEach-Object {
        if ($_ -is [System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord]) {
            # Output error records
            "ERROR: $($_.Exception.Message)"
        } elseif ($_ -notmatch '^\s*$') {
            # Process non-empty lines
            $line = $_ -replace $pattern, ''
            if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($line)) {
                $line
            }
        }
    }
}

Usage with Microsoft.WindowsTerminal:

PS C:\Users\Administrator\desktop> Strip-Progress -ScriptBlock { winget install Microsoft.WindowsTerminal --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --force|tee output.txt }
Found Windows Terminal [Microsoft.WindowsTerminal] Version 1.19.10302.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, thirdparty packages.
This package requires the following dependencies:
   Packages
      Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8 [>= 8.2306.22001.0]
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
    2%
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    95%
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    100%
Successfully installed
PS C:\Users\Administrator\desktop>

Issue related to feature request on issue #3494.

[Andrew-J-Larson]

@asheroto, nicely done, I think I know one little thing to make it better (removes just the spinner symbols rather than the spinner symbols located everywhere):

$pattern = 'Γû[Æê]|^\s+[-\\|/]\s+$'

And here's how that looks now when updating GIMP:

PS C:\Users\Andrew> Strip-Progress -ScriptBlock { winget update GIMP.GIMP --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --force }
Found GIMP [GIMP.GIMP] Version 2.10.36
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v2.10/windows/gimp-2.10.36-setup.exe
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Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

[Andrew-J-Larson]

Here's the code with the modification I made + an additional one that retains newlines (except the beginning ones:

function Strip-Progress {
    param(
        [ScriptBlock]$ScriptBlock
    )

    # regex pattern to match spinner characters and progress bar patterns
    $pattern = 'Γû[Æê]|^\s+[-\\|/]\s+$'

    $firstTextLinePast = $false # skips over empty lines that start the output

    # Execute the script block and process its output
    & $ScriptBlock 2>&1 | ForEach-Object {
        if ($_ -is [System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord]) {
            # Output error records
            "ERROR: $($_.Exception.Message)"
        } elseif ($_ -notmatch '^\s*$') {
            # Process non-empty lines
            $line = $_ -replace $pattern, ''
            if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($line)) {
                $firstTextLinePast = $true
                $line
            }
        } elseif ($firstTextLinePast) {
          # don't forget to put original empty lines back in
          Write-Host
        }
    }
}

Which results in output like this:

PS C:\Users\Andrew> Strip-Progress -ScriptBlock { winget update }
Name                                         Id                                Version          Available        Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Google Chrome                                Google.Chrome                     121.0.6167.162   122.0.6261.39    winget
Dev Home                                     Microsoft.DevHome                 0.1000.389.0     0.1001.389.0     winget
Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise - en-us    Microsoft.Office                  16.0.17029.20140 16.0.17126.20132 winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.15 … Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 7.0.15           7.0.16           winget
RealVNC Viewer 7.6.1                         RealVNC.VNCViewer                 7.6.1.50931      7.8.0            winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.26 … Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6 6.0.26           6.0.27           winget
7 upgrades available.

The following packages have an upgrade available, but require explicit targeting for upgrade:
Name                         Id              Version    Available            Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Teams Machine-Wide Installer Microsoft.Teams 1.6.0.4472 23320.3027.2591.1505 winget

[asheroto]

@Andrew-J-Larson looks great!

Now this is probably overkill, but I noticed a few details I missed before:

1. Although removing extra lines can be beneficial, we may want to leave at least one extra life if it exists for readability. If we leave all empty lines, though, it's too much space. Since it's unlikely people will want more than one empty line, I added some code to ensure there is a max of one empty line if applicable.
2. There is an extra space after the slash for packages when installing via winget (example 269 MB / 305 MB). Added another regex pattern to detect the download progress pattern and reformat it. I don't think it will cause any issues with non-winget-related text, as I doubt anyone would want two spaces after a slash in the pattern defined in the code even unrelated to winget. This particular code looks for two decimal points, although that might need to be changed; I didn't want to sway too far away and match unnecessary text.
3. I removed Write-Host because it could break the output pipeline with certain commands, as it's intended for use to write to the host window itself, not necessarily the output stream. More info

function Strip-Progress {
    param(
        [ScriptBlock]$ScriptBlock
    )

    # Regex pattern to match spinner characters and progress bar patterns
    $progressPattern = 'Γû[Æê]|^\s+[-\\|/]\s+$'

    # Corrected regex pattern for size formatting, ensuring proper capture groups are utilized
    $sizePattern = '(\d+(\.\d{1,2})?)\s+(B|KB|MB|GB|TB|PB) /\s+(\d+(\.\d{1,2})?)\s+(B|KB|MB|GB|TB|PB)'

    $previousLineWasEmpty = $false # Track if the previous line was empty

    & $ScriptBlock 2>&1 | ForEach-Object {
        if ($_ -is [System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord]) {
            "ERROR: $($_.Exception.Message)"
        } elseif ($_ -match '^\s*$') {
            if (-not $previousLineWasEmpty) {
                Write-Output ""
                $previousLineWasEmpty = $true
            }
        } else {
            $line = $_ -replace $progressPattern, '' -replace $sizePattern, '$1 $3 / $4 $6'
            if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($line)) {
                $previousLineWasEmpty = $false
                $line
            }
        }
    }
}

Using this code and your command usage...

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Found GIMP [GIMP.GIMP] Version 2.10.36
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v2.10/windows/gimp-2.10.36-setup.exe

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Found GIMP [GIMP.GIMP] Version 2.10.36
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Thoughts?

[Andrew-J-Larson]

Yeah now it's looking pretty great!