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pjanuario/download_files.sh

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Bash script to download files from a comma separated source file.
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download_files.sh
mkdir -p /tmp/downloaded_files
while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
#echo "Text read from file: $line"
filename=$(echo $line | cut -d "," -f 1)
url=$(echo $line | cut -d "," -f 2)
echo "url: $url filename: $filename"
curl $url -o "/tmp/downloaded_files/$filename"
done < "$1"
echo "files are in /tmp/downloaded_files"
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  • Execute (on terminal to make it executable)
    $ chmod +x download_files.sh
  • Run script using
    $ ./download_files.sh source.file

NOTE: The file need to be in the following format:

filename,url
filename,url

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