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
> 
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