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Automating might actually make it safer, my typical idiom is `while read -r url; do wget "$url"; done < ./urls` (or `tail -zf ./urls|while…` to make it an url d

Automating might actually make it safer, my typical idiom is `while read -r url; do wget "$url"; done < ./urls` (or `tail -zf ./urls|while…` to make it an url downloader daemon =P)

jwilk 4y ago
The former can be simplified to: wget -i ./urls
- unhammer 4y ago
  True, though in practice if I'm scripting the loop body is more like `x=$(curl -Ss "${url}") && dothing "$x" && …`