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Author: James Dugger
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Subject: Re: wget
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
>>>> <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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