I could swear that at one time I used wget with a simple '-r' to download a bunch of images. Guess I'm wrong.... bummer!
:-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:45 PM, James Dugger <james.dug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Todds answer is perfect as long as the filenames to be downloaded are > explicitly named. However the image files that you are downloading are > named based on a query string and are hashed with filename that is longer > than the allowable character limit of a filename in Linux. So the wget > will fail. You need use the -O option which allows you to rename the file > as you download it but it can only be used for a single file not > recursively. > > you could do this for a single file case: > > $ wget -O new_image_name.jpg http://url-to-image-name > > Normally the -r and -A options will add a numerical suffix if it > encounters another file with the same name, however option -O turns > suffixing off, so it is only good for one file at a time. You could write > a small bash script to handle it: > > #!usr/env/bin/ bash > > while read -r image > do > output=`echo $image | cut -c 1-50` > wget "${image}" -O "${output}" > done < ./images.txt > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Todd.... I am so glad I asked the question. I wondered if there was a way >> to do the 'A' option. Now I know! So cool. >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Todd Millecam <tyg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> wget -r -A jpg -P /tmp/ >>> http://sites.google.com/site/thebookofgimp/home/chapter-2-photograph-retouching/ >>> >>> will put them all in /tmp/ >>> sites.google.com/bookofgim/home/chapter-2-photograph-retouching >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> H0w can I us wget to retrieve the photos here >>>> <http://the-book-of-gimp.blogspot.com/p/chapter-2-photograph-retouching.html>. >>>> I tried: >>>> >>>> wget -r >>>> http://the-book-of-gimp.blogspot.com/p/chapter-2-photograph-retouching.html >>>> >>>> but it didn't download the pictures. It downloaded a bunch of web pages. >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Todd Millecam >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > James > > *Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-h-dugger/15/64b/74a/>* > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
--------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
