Bash script to download files from a comma separated source file.

download_files.sh

mkdir -p /tmp/downloaded_files

while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
  #echo "Text read from file: $line"
  filename=$(echo $line | cut -d "," -f 1)
  url=$(echo $line | cut -d "," -f 2)
  echo "url: $url filename: $filename"
  curl $url -o "/tmp/downloaded_files/$filename"
done < "$1"

echo "files are in /tmp/downloaded_files"

• Download the script
• Execute (on terminal to make it executable)

    $ chmod +x download_files.sh

• Run script using

    $ ./download_files.sh source.file

NOTE: The file need to be in the following format:

filename,url
filename,url