On 14/06/12 13:19, Linda Walsh wrote: > I have a list of files in a directory. > > I only want each wget to retrieve 10 of the files, so I want to use > parallel to put 10 of the files on wget's command line. > > I tried specifying the base with -B, but it seems to ignore it. > > how do I specify a base with files on the command line? > > I've wanted to do this before ..... where several files I want to fetch > are in 1 dir, and I only want to type the dirname 1 time, so how does > one do this in wget? > > Thanks... > linda I'm not sure if this is a question on splitting a list of urls in groups of 10, or about not typing the domain for each url (paste command doesn't work?).
Assuming you are using a unix-like shell, you can use: wget http://example.org/path/{file1,file2,subfolder/file3,file4} and that will expand being equivalent to: wget http://example.org/path/file1 http://example.org/path/file2 http://example.org/path/subfolder/file3 http://example.org/path/file4
