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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”

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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
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