my brain is smoking! I guess I will do it one at a time then. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:51 PM, James Dugger wrote: > Sorry the Shebang is wrong on the bash script it should be: > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:45 PM, James Dugger > wrote: > >> 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 * >> > > > > -- > James > > *Linkedin * > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >