I want to write a shell script that uses wget to retrieve only certain directories from my webserver. I don't know shell scripting at all, but I'll write something that will give you an idea of what I want:

#!/bin/bash

declare variable int = 1

declare variable str = '000'

begin

wget -l 1 http://www.domain.com/directory/xyz+...z0001orxyz0002

increment int +1

if int > 9 and int < 100

str = '00'

else if int > 99 and int < 1000

str = '0'

else if int > 999 and int < 10,000

str = ''

else

end

loop

exit 0

**end script**

So I want to go through directories xyz0001 thru directory xyz9999

that's pretty confusing what you want to achieve, unless it's a lot lot simpler than you make out. seems you want to grab everything under xyz0001 to xyz9999 yeah? that's a doddle, no script needed there...

curl http://domain.com/directory/xyz[0001-9999]

I'll try it.