Thanks for all the answers guys, interesting discussion.
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:33:46 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > >10 bonus points to Carl for not using perl, but I suspect a simple loop > > >in bash may be less error prone... :) > > > > Go on then! > > > > Show us your code! > > Code? CODE? That's top secret mate! ;) > > Ok let's have some fun. > > We were assuming bash. > > for u in `seq 12`; do wget http://somewhere/file$u.jpeg; done > > Much less syntactic sugar :), and assuming one can remember the for loop > in bash (I take that as a given for anyone using the command line), one > only has to remember seq. This gets files 1 to 12. Modify the seq for > different numbers. seq -w2 12 puts a leading 0. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
