On 4 Dec 2001, Jason Mancini wrote:

> Say you have a list of FTP addresses to download in a file named
> "ftp-list.txt".
>
> $ cat ftp-list.txt | xargs curl -O -O -O [...]
>
> Curl _needs_ an "-Oalways" flag -- all addresses on the command line use
> the base filename to store locally. Else a script must precount the # of
> URLs, construct the proper number of "-O"s...

I came to think of how to do the above semi-nicely:

    $ cat ftp-list.txt | awk '{print $1 " -O";}' | xargs curl -O

It'll always give you at least one -O for each file! ;-)

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