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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Short: #
5Long: progress-bar
6Help: Display transfer progress as a bar
7Category: verbose global
8Added: 5.10
9Multi: boolean
10Scope: global
11See-also:
12  - styled-output
13Example:
14  - -# -O $URL
15---
16
17# `--progress-bar`
18
19Make curl display transfer progress as a simple progress bar instead of the
20standard, more informational, meter.
21
22This progress bar draws a single line of '#' characters across the screen and
23shows a percentage if the transfer size is known. For transfers without a
24known size, there is a space ship (-=o=-) that moves back and forth but only
25while data is being transferred, with a set of flying hash sign symbols on
26top.
27