Not sure what you mean with progress bar. When doing

#!/usr/bin/perl

$| = 1;

open OUT, ">out.txt";
open WGET, "wget http://www.perlmonks.com 2>&1 |" or
    die "$!\n";
print OUT "$_" while (<WGET>);
close WGET; 
close OUT;

[download]

I am getting the same in out.txt as I would via the command line:

$ cat out.txt
--12:39:46--  http://www.perlmonks.com/
           => `index.html'
Verbindungsaufbau zu www.perlmonks.com:80... verbunden!
HTTP Anforderung gesendet, auf Antwort wird gewartet... 200 OK
Länge: nicht spezifiziert [text/html]

    0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... @ 480.77
+ KB/s
   50K .......... .......... ...                              @  11.39
+ MB/s

12:39:48 (691.69 KB/s) - »index.html« gespeichert [75079]

[download]

In reply to Re: Capture wget progress bar by crenz
in thread Capture wget progress bar by rendler

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.