How to disable the Ollama progress bar? - Stack Overflow

I'm running Ollama in a CI/CD pipeline and when it pulls models, the progress bar adds a significant amount of unnecessary verbosity to the job log, for example:

$ ollama pull llama3.2
pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠏ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest ⠏ pulling manifest ⠏ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest ⠏ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
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This goes on for 300+ lines.

How do I disable this progress bar for running it non-interactively?

I'm running Ollama in a CI/CD pipeline and when it pulls models, the progress bar adds a significant amount of unnecessary verbosity to the job log, for example:

$ ollama pull llama3.2
pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠏ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest ⠏ pulling manifest ⠏ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest ⠏ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠸ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠧ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠋ pulling manifest ⠙ pulling manifest ⠹ pulling manifest ⠼ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠴ pulling manifest ⠦ pulling manifest ⠇ pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
pulling dde5aa3fc5ff...   0% ▕                ▏    0 B/2.0 GB                  pulling manifest 
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This goes on for 300+ lines.

How do I disable this progress bar for running it non-interactively?

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Sorted by: Reset to default 1

Look like there is no argument in the CLI to disable the interactive thing progress bar. You could do something dirty like :

ollama pull llama3.2 2>/dev/null

But in case of error in future, you will maybe not like this solution