The following example downloads a single file from internet and stores in the current directory.
wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
While downloading it will show a progress bar with the following information:
wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
Displays:
Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2.1' 31% [=================> 1,213,592 68.2K/s eta 34s
wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
Displays:
Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2' 100%[======================>] 3,852,374 76.8K/s in 55s 2009-09-25 11:15:30 (68.7 KB/s) - `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2' saved [3852374/3852374]