Let's say I wanted to download the following:

http://www.mysite.org/pic001.jpg
http://www.mysite.org/pic002.jpg
http://www.mysite.org/pic003.jpg
...
http://www.mysite.org/pic125.jpg

Is there a fast way to do this using wget, scripts or the command line; that is, without downloading special software?

I'd like to do the following, but, of course, it doesn't work:

wget http://www.mysite.org/pic[001-125].jpg

Many thanks!

curl will allow you to do what you want:

Thanks matthiewg42! It works!! Brilliant!!!

I had a look on several sites to get more information on the cURL command, but have found very long and comprehensive descriptions which don't necessarily tell me what I want to know. I thought you might have the answers to my questions, and, moreover, that your answers could be of great use to a great number of people out there. So, I'll put my questions to you. If you can answer them, great! If not, well, nobody knows everything...

What does '-o' do?

How does the "pic#1.jpg" work? The file name will begin with 'pic' and end with '.jpg', but I don't understand the middle part: How about the '#' and '1' bit? What does the '#1' do?

I noticed that the file is saved in the folder you are in when you do the command. Are there other ways of saving the file in a specific directory?

If you don't know how many jpg pictures there are, is there a way of telling cURL to stop when it encounter a 'non-jpg' file? For instance, if there are 18 jpgs and the '...19.jpg' doesn't exist.

Is there a similar command for DOS in Windows? Does cURL work in DOS?

Are there any useful sites for downloading web sites? For example, a Table of Contents and all of its associated links?

Another problem encountered when saving chapters is that the notation isn't necessarily consistent: You could have Chapter 1, Section 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.2.1, 1.4, Chapter 2, 2.1, etc. It's cool when all the links work even when you're not connected to the Net (after saving the file)... It can work if you put everything in the same folder. Any advice here?

Any other useful features, options or functionality?

I must say, I've only started learning the command line a couple months ago, and I'm very impressed indeed!

Many thanks!!

The #1 is replaced with the number from the range [001-125]. If you had a second range it would be #2.
curl 'http://www.mysite.org/collection[1-9]/pic[001-125].jpg' -o "collection#1_pic#2.jpg" would safe files named "collection1_pic001.jpg" ... "collection9_pic125.jpg".
The -o is the argument for an output filename. Otherwise the standard output is used. If you use -O then the file is saved by the same name:
curl -O 'http://www.mysite.org/pic[001-125].jpg'

To clone a website use wget.
The wget manpage has examples.

Thanks jschiwal!

If anybody has any answers to some of my other questions, I'd certainly appreciate it. What I'd like to be able to do is to save an entire website, that is, all of the links of a table of contents of a webbook, for example.

Many thanks.

Another similar or somewhat related question...

I need to convert all of the files in a directory to lowercase. The file names are DOGGY.PAS, KITTY.PAS, and I need to convert them all to lower case (doggy.pas, kitty.pas). Is there an easy way of doing this from the terminal? (It's a bunch of Pascal mini-programs/exercises whose file names are all in uppercase). I couldn't find a solution on the web. I read something about IUCLC, but don't think it applies to this sort of thing...

Another general question. In the info and manual pages, if I have a question about a topic but don't know the commands, options and/or arguments, how do you go about finding them?

Many thanks.