[Nottingham] Downloading multiple images from a website

Roger Light rogerlight at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 11:37:04 BST 2005


> That makes sense. Does the builtin nature also stop the commandline
> getting too long? 1000 URLs of approx 30 chars each plus a bit of overhead
> for the initial wget options is more than I expect I could legally type as
> a commandline.

It's getting close. A random ./configure tells me:

checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768

> > $ curl http://blah/[0-999].jpeg -O --limit-rate 3k

This is certainly the better solution.

Cheers,

Roger



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