Todds answer is perfect as long as the filenames to be downloaded are explicitly named. However the image files that you are downloading are named based on a query string and are hashed with filename that is longer than the allowable character limit of a filename in Linux. So the wget will fail. You need use the -O option which allows you to rename the file as you download it but it can only be used for a single file not recursively. you could do this for a single file case: $ wget -O new_image_name.jpg http://url-to-image-name Normally the -r and -A options will add a numerical suffix if it encounters another file with the same name, however option -O turns suffixing off, so it is only good for one file at a time. You could write a small bash script to handle it: #!usr/env/bin/ bash while read -r image do output=`echo $image | cut -c 1-50` wget "${image}" -O "${output}" done < ./images.txt On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > Todd.... I am so glad I asked the question. I wondered if there was a way > to do the 'A' option. Now I know! So cool. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: > >> wget -r -A jpg -P /tmp/ >> http://sites.google.com/site/thebookofgimp/home/chapter-2-photograph-retouching/ >> >> will put them all in /tmp/ >> sites.google.com/bookofgim/home/chapter-2-photograph-retouching >> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Michael Havens >> wrote: >> >>> H0w can I us wget to retrieve the photos here >>> . >>> I tried: >>> >>> wget -r >>> http://the-book-of-gimp.blogspot.com/p/chapter-2-photograph-retouching.html >>> >>> but it didn't download the pictures. It downloaded a bunch of web pages. >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Todd Millecam >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James *Linkedin *