1<!-- Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. --> 2<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: curl --> 3# PROGRESS METER 4 5curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the 6amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. The 7progress meter displays the transfer rate in bytes per second. The suffixes 8(k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576 9bytes. 10 11curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to 12do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it *disables* 13the progress meter as otherwise it would mess up the output mixing progress 14meter and response data. 15 16If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to 17redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (\>), --output 18or similar. 19 20This does not apply to FTP upload as that operation does not spit out any 21response data to the terminal. 22 23If you prefer a progress bar instead of the regular meter, --progress-bar is 24your friend. You can also disable the progress meter completely with the 25--silent option. 26
