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Hi everybody, I would greatly appreciate some expertise in this matter. I am trying find an efficient way to batch download files from a website and rename each file with the url it originated from (from the CLI). (ie. Instead of xyz.zip, the output file would be http://www.abc.com/xyz.zip) A method using WGET is preferable but not absolutely necessary. I'm just starting to get comfortable with the command line; in part because of some of the great help I've gotten here before, so once again I'm back looking for some help from this excellent community

Thanks

Do you try -O option in wget?

Code:

  -O   --output-document=FILE   write documents to FILE.

Thanks for your response Will -O replace all the downloaded files filenames with their corresponding original url addresses?

you can customize the output file name with -O option, or assign a var to it.

Okay, so far so good. Thanks for the tip. All I need to do now is figure out how I can automatically replace the filenames with their respective url addresses; is this somehow possible using grep or sed with the

Code:

wget -a logfile

switch enabled?

You cannot name a file "http://www.abc.com/xyz.zip". Forward slashes are one of two illegal characters in unix filenames (null byte being the other). The best you can do without some kind of translation is to mirror the hierarchy, with each slash-delimited component in the url, except the last, being a directory. Even so, the "//" cannot be handled without some special treatment as a "//" in a pathname is treated identically to "/".

Thanks for your feedback alistar Maybe you can answer this one for me: How would I go about printing the url of a particular photo onto that photo (ie. watermark) as soon as its downloaded? I have already had limited success with the "convert" command using predefined text, however, I still haven't figured out the auto-url-watermark capability that I'm after. Thanks again!