How to download multiple files using a script

Question

I have to download multiple files from here in googlecode. Currently I open each folder and download each file by saving it using my browser. Is there a way to automatically download all folder/files?

Solution

wget is the command line utility you want:

wget -r http://tinyos-main.googlecode.com/svn/tags/release_tinyos_2_1_2/

It downloads everything in:

http://tinyos-main.googlecode.com/svn/tags/release_tinyos_2_1_2/

and all subdirectories - folder(s) and file(s) - in release_tinyos_2_1_2/

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Further Reading:

• GNU Wget 1.15 Manual: Top

Home Page:

• GNU Wget

Comments

[David Foerster]

Why not simply use a SVN client? Or Git since TinyOS moved to Github? Github even lets you download whole branches and tags as zip archive: github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main/archive/release_tinyos_2_1_2.z‌​ip

[Saeid87]

Thanks, this look like a nice solution, but before I start the download, can you please tell me where these files will be saved?

[Ankit]

they will be saved in your current directory.

[Saeid87]

OMG I think this command is downloading everything in this subdomain, not only the folder I wanted but everything else!

[Saeid87]

I mean it dowloaded everything inside /svn/ folder. Is there a fix for this?

[blade19899]

/svn/??? remove /svn/*.* with root nautilus like so 'gksudo nautilus' then got to '/svn/'? then remove all downloaded content and then again run this in terminal 'cd' then 'mkdir tinyos' and then cd 'tinyos' and the the command 'wget -r tinyos-main.googlecode.com/svn/tags/release_tinyos_2_1_2'