Re: [Bug-wget] QuickStart tutorial

[Rahul Prasad]

On Friday 15 October 2010 03:10 AM, Ángel González wrote:
>   Tony Lewis wrote:
>    
> > Having said all of that, you can more easily do the same thing with a shell
> > script that invokes wget repeatedly. The downside of the shell script
> > approach is that you won't be reusing the connection to the server.
> >      
>    

What if someone does not know Shell Script ?
Scripting is not a feature of Wget, Its a feature of Shell. I want to 
add this feature to wget so that end users wont have to write script.

> You can do it with one connection by piping the input file:
>
> ( for i in `seq 1 10`; do echo http://rahulprasad.com/pics/img$i.jpg;
> done ) | wget -i -
>
> Or if you are not concerned with portability:
> for ((i=1; i<= 10 ; i++))
> do
> echo http://rahulprasad.com/pics/img$i.jpg
> done | wget -i -
>
>
> If you have bash 4 it's even easier:
> wget  http://rahulprasad.com/pics/img{1..10}.jpg
>
> These tricks should be stored somewhere...
>
>    
yes, I agree. we should inprove our wiki and add these tricks there.