Download files using Shell script

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I want to download a number of files which are as follows:

http://example.com/directory/file1.txt http://example.com/directory/file2.txt http://example.com/directory/file3.txt http://example.com/directory/file4.txt . . http://example.com/directory/file199.txt http://example.com/directory/file200.txt

Can anyone help me with it using shell scripting? Here is what I'm using but it is downloading only the first file.

for i in {1..200} do exec wget http://example.com/directory/file$i.txt; done

Danica · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-09 23:31:41Z

wget http://example.com/directory/file{1..200}.txt

should do it. That expands to wget http://example.com/directory/file1.txt http://example.com/directory/file2.txt ....

Alternatively, your current code should work fine if you remove the call to exec, which is unnecessary and doesn't do what you seem to think it does.

enrique-carbonell · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-19 12:59:32Z

To download a list of files you can use wget -i <file> where is a file name with a list of url to download.

For more details you can review the help page: man wget

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