Unattended Downloads using WGET

If you have a lot of direct download links you can do a batch download of those files with wget using this simple bash script, unattendedget.sh:

#!/bin/bash

export OFS="$IFS" ; export IFS=$'\n';
for i in $( cat $1 ); do 
   wget -c $i
done
export IFS="$OFS"

exit 0

To run the script first you need to make it executable:

$ chmod u+rx unattendedget.sh

and then execute it:

$ ./unattendedget.sh textfile

where textfile it’s just a plain text file that has all the download links. Say you have a file called links.txt, this file should look like this:

www.foo.com/image.jpg
www.bar.com/document.odt
www.foobar.com/video.avi
www.foo.com/bar/otherfile.tar
www.bar.com/foo/onemorevideo.avi

to download the 5 files in links.txt just run the script and give the name of the file with the links:

$ ./unattendedget.sh links.txt

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