I'm trying to download multiple URLs using curls:
user@PC:~$ curl -LOJ "https://example.com/foo.jpg" "https://example.com/bar.jpg"
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 445 100 445 0 0 517 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 518
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>404 - Not Found</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>404 - Not Found</h1>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//wpc.75674.betacdn.net/0075674/www/ec_tpm_bcon.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
user@PC:~$ ls foo.jpg
foo.jpg
user@PC:~$ ls bar.jpg
ls: cannot access 'bar.jpg': No such file or directory
But it only applied the arguments (-LOJ) to the first URL, so only the first file gets downloaded.
If I repeat the arguments for each URL, this issue no longer occurs and both files get downloaded:
user@PC:~$ curl -LOJ "https://example.com/foo.jpg" -LOJ "https://example.com/bar.jpg"
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 445 100 445 0 0 481 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 481
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 445 100 445 0 0 1534 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1539
user@PC:~$ ls foo.jpg
foo.jpg
user@PC:~$ ls bar.jpg
bar.jpg
So is there a way to have the arguments apply to all the URLs passed to curl without having to repeat it for each URL?
You need to use -n1, like
{ echo "https://example.com/foo.jpg"; echo "https://example.com/bar.jpg"; } | xargs -n1 curl -LOJ
to tell xargs to start a curl for each url, not run a single curl with both urls as arguments.