Curl is really handy if you want to write a quick crawler for some globs of urls. For example if you want to download a gallery of images with some fixed forma

Curl is really handy if you want to write a quick crawler for some globs of urls. For example if you want to download a gallery of images with some fixed format you can do curl "http://example.com/imgs/[01-99].jpg" -o "#1.jpg" And it will fetch them and name them with the correct zero padding. Or if you want to download the first 10 pages of hn: curl https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=[1-10] -o "hn_page_#1.html" It can glob pretty complicated patterns! See this for syntax: https://ec.haxx.se/cmdline-globbing.html https://ec.haxx.se/cmdline-globbing.html