World's largest web comic panel
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 11:33:49 EDT 2012
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> xargs FTW. Though, actually..., you should be able to just pipe
> stdout from that loop directly into "wget -qi", shouldn't you?
>
> But, if you want be more *magically bruticious*, try parallel:
xargs has a switch which will run multiple commands in parallel, IIRC.
> You can also use cURL in stead of wget, and just use cURL's range/set syntax:
>
> curl -f -JO 'http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/[1-100]{n,s}[1-100]{e,w}.png'
Ohhhh... I didn't know curl supported that syntax internally. Now
*that's* handy. Thanks for the tip!
-- Ben
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