diff --git a/docs/cli.rst b/docs/cli.rst
index 40d0f77..54591cc 100644
--- a/docs/cli.rst
+++ b/docs/cli.rst
@@ -360,6 +360,8 @@ Data is expected to be encoded as Unicode UTF-8. If your data is an another char
 
     $ sqlite-utils insert dogs.db dogs docs.tsv --tsv --encoding=latin-1
 
+A progress bar is displayed when inserting data from a file. You can hide the progress bar using the ``--silent`` option.
+
 .. _cli_insert_replace:
 
 Insert-replacing data