Re: wget

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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <tyggna@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> H0w can I us wget to retrieve the photos here
>>> <http://the-book-of-gimp.blogspot.com/p/chapter-2-photograph-retouching.html>.
>>> 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~(-:
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