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How to curl images to specific folder/directory

I am using this code:

xargs -n 1 curl -O < urls.txt

to download all image urls from text file.

All images are downloading to home directory.

How can I specify the folder/directory to download to?

Solution

  • curl has no specific option to specify the download directory for -O. The standard fix for that is to simply make your command line first cd to the directory you've chosen to download the files into.

    Maybe something like this:

    #!bin/sh
# figure out where we are
pwd=`pwd`

# go to the download directory
cd /tmp/my-downloads

# Download into the right dir, find the URL file in the original dir
xargs -n 1 curl -O < $pwd/urls.txt