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Using curl to download files numbered sequentially no comments
Posted at 4:29 am in Console One-Liners
Ever had the dilemma of downloading files numbered sequencially without clicking each one of them and saving them? Everybody knows how robotic this task is especially if you have more than a handful of files to download. Well yes you can use download managers and browser plugins (Firefox’s DownloadThemAll!) but what if the file’s link is deeply embedded in the html file (eg: a photo gallery)?
If you have access to some type of unix console (linux, mac, windows via cygwin), you have the option to use the venerable wget. But using wget we have to make a script to automatically generate the sequencial filenames. Possible but, too much work.
