BASH script: Downloading consecutive numbered files with wget

#!/bin/shif [ $# -lt 3 ]; then        echo "Usage: $0 url_format seq_start seq_end [wget_args]"        exitfiurl_format=$1seq_start=$2seq_end=$3shift 3printf "$url_format\\n" `seq $seq_start $seq_end` | wget -i- "$@"

Save the above as seq_wget, give it execution permission (chmod +x seq_wget), and then run, for example:

$ ./seq_wget http://someaddress.com/logs/dbsclog01s%03d.log 1 50

Or, if you have Bash 4.0, you could just type

$ wget http://someaddress.com/logs/dbsclog01s{001..050}.log

Or, if you have curl instead of wget, you could follow Dennis Williamson's answer.

curl seems to support ranges. From the man page:

URL         The URL syntax is protocol dependent. You’ll find a  detailed  descrip‐       tion in RFC 3986.       You  can  specify  multiple  URLs or parts of URLs by writing part sets       within braces as in:        http://site.{one,two,three}.com       or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:        ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt        ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt    (with leading zeros)        ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt       No nesting of the sequences is supported at the moment, but you can use       several ones next to each other:        http://any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html       You  can  specify  any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be       fetched in a sequential manner in the specified order.       Since curl 7.15.1 you can also specify step counter for the ranges,  so       that you can get every Nth number or letter:        http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt        http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt

You may have noticed that it says "with leading zeros"!

You can use echo type sequences in the wget url to download a string of numbers...

wget http://someaddress.com/logs/dbsclog01s00{1..3}.log

This also works with letters

{a..z} {A..Z}