On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > xargs FTW. Though, actually..., you should be able to just pipe > stdout from that loop directly into "wget -qi", shouldn't you? > > But, if you want be more *magically bruticious*, try parallel:
xargs has a switch which will run multiple commands in parallel, IIRC. > You can also use cURL in stead of wget, and just use cURL's range/set syntax: > > curl -f -JO 'http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/[1-100]{n,s}[1-100]{e,w}.png' Ohhhh... I didn't know curl supported that syntax internally. Now *that's* handy. Thanks for the tip! -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/