wget and progress bar

[spiralciric]

Hello, I was wondering if you can help me with this. I have googled for an hour and found other people's solutions that just don't work.
I need to get all files from a web directory and display a progress bar with zenity. Thus the code looks like this:

sudo wget -r --no-parent http://www.somewebsite/directory/ -P /somelocaldirectory/

I have tried pipeing to zenity progress bar, but that only shows 0 and 100%. I have tried several versions with sed, but they dont work at all.

Thanks

[Habitual]

why sudo?

function my_wget()
{
var3=%$(wget -r --no-parent http://www.somewebsite/directory/ -P /somelocaldirectory/)
}

touch /tmp/$$
(  ( echo 1 ; while [ -f /tmp/$$ ] ; do sleep 1 ; done ; echo 100 ) |  zenity --progress --pulsate --auto-close --text="Counting Snapshots..."  --width=150 --title="" --undecorated --no-buttons) & my_wget
rm /tmp/$$

I ripped this snippet from a yad-driven program. Yad is the successor to
zenity and has more options.

Good Luck.

Edit0:
My code came from one, or more of these:
A Little Hacking game with bash and Zenity - Ubuntu Forums
A complete zenity dialog examples 1 » Linux by Examples
Choose profile before launching GNOME Terminal emulator [bash] [shell] [gnome] [zenity]
Bash Scripts using Zenity - FedoraForum.org
Zenity Manual
zenity site:unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/ - Google Search
Ubuntu Forums - Threads Tagged with zenity
Zenity and newlines in entry dialog. - Ubuntu Forums
Zenity Progress Window
YAD — A fork of zenity with more features « TechnoStripe
zenity - Google Search
"if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]" +zenity - Google Search
zenity progress via function example Advanced Application Launchers With Zenity - TildeHash

[spiralciric]

Unfortunately, this code does not work , zenity gui does not appear at all. Thanks for the links, I will try with yad as well.

[Habitual]

Let me break down the process here, so maybe you'll understand what I presented:

What needs to happen is a progress-meter needs to be shown while the "wget" action is performed. So you do a touch /tmp/$$ in the script and zenity is told
"while [ -f /tmp/$$ ]" (while file exists) ; do the pulse action, then remove /tmp/$$ and continue with the
written code.

so when you say things like "doesn't work" or "other people's solutions that just don't work", it doesn't say to much.
The meat-and-potatoes of the operation and should be tried out solo on your host is:

zenity --progress --pulsate --text="Progress-bar Check"  --width=150 --title="" --undecorated --no-buttons

You never answered my question:
Why sudo?

Post your script using[code][/code] tags.
Thank you,

[spiralciric]

Ok, I will try this again.
Sudo because I need to save files inside /etc/somefolder

[Habitual]

Sudo because I need to save files inside /etc/somefolder

fair enough. Script should also include a "sudo -k" option to discard temporary sudo privs. It's good security practice to do so.

Anyways: after reviewing http://linux.die.net/man/1/zenity the code that should work on your host may be:

zenity --progress --text="Progress-bar Check"  --width=150 --title=""

yad has more options, as you can tell.