From a710914b36db4d52ce557dab98b3208c9af95667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mischief <mischief@offblast.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:28:42 -0700
Subject: hget: add the -v option to produce progress on stderr, like old hget

---
 sys/man/1/hget | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

(limited to 'sys/man')

diff --git a/sys/man/1/hget b/sys/man/1/hget
index a8671369d..6857015bb 100644
--- a/sys/man/1/hget
+++ b/sys/man/1/hget
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ hget, hpost, webpaste, urlencode \- retrieve, post to a web page corresponding t
 ] [
 .B -b
 .I baseurl
+] [
+.B -v
 ]
 .I url
 .PP
@@ -124,6 +126,15 @@ Option
 .B -m
 overrides the HTTP method used for the request.
 .PP
+Option
+.B -v
+causes
+.I hget
+to emit download status on file descriptor 2,
+suitable for use with
+.I aux/statusbar .
+See EXAMPLES.
+.PP
 .I Hpost
 retrieves the web page specified by the URL
 .I url,
@@ -201,6 +212,16 @@ Download a file from the web.
 % hget http://9front.org/img/nix-on.jpg >/tmp/nix-on.jpg
 .EE
 .PP
+Use
+.I hget
+in conjuncton with aux/statusbar to monitor progress.
+.IP
+.EX
+hget -v -o 9front.iso.bz2 \\
+	http://www.r-36.net/9front/9front.iso.bz2 \\
+	|[2] aux/statusbar '9front.iso.bz2'
+.EE
+.PP
 Retrieve the commands needed to submit a form, which may then be
 edited and sent.
 .IP
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