progress bar option

[sigboe]

Would it be okay to get a commandline flag to get another kind of progress bar?

Just echo a new line with the percent whenever a new whole number percent is reached?

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I know wget has a --progress=type flag, and I have seen people pipe wget with progress=dot through awk and sed to get just the percent.

I don't know, maybe the argument could be called --progress=dumb

If you add other aesthetic types, maybe the user preferred one could be put in the config file. I know pacman has an option to let the progress bar be a pacman that eats dots, thats always funny if you run arch linux.

[sigboe]

Just close this issue if you don't like the idea

[nicohman]

Seems like a good idea to me--can't hurt to have an option. I'll add that soon!