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Created July 29, 2018 13:45
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script to scrape scanned illustrations from Ernst Haeckel's book Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature)
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download_haeckel.sh
for i in {1..100}; do
filepath=$(printf "http://caliban.mpipz.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/Tafel_%03d_300.jpg" $i)
wget $filepath;
done
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ghost commented Jul 31, 2018

Hi!
I improved your script a bit.
Added hashbang to clearly indicate that it must be executed using bash and escaped variables

#! /bin/bash

for i in {1..100}; do
	filepath=$(printf "http://caliban.mpipz.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/Tafel_%03d_300.jpg" "$i")
	wget "$filepath"
done

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