Downloading multiple files using curl
We have 100 data files stored in long sequentially named URLs. Scroll right to see the complete URLs.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/production/repositories/4180/datasets/files/datafile001.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/production/repositories/4180/datasets/files/datafile002.txt
......
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/production/repositories/4180/datasets/files/datafile100.txt
To minimize having to type the long URLs over and over again, we'd like to download all of these files using a single curl
command.
This is a part of the course
“Data Processing in Shell”
Exercise instructions
- Download all 100 data files using a single
curl
command. - Print all downloaded files to directory.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Download all 100 data files
curl ___ https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/production/repositories/4180/datasets/files/datafile___.txt
# Print all downloaded files to directory
ls datafile*.txt