Using wget to download files in a directory, that are named 1-4000

This is really confusing me.

I can wget -r ftp to download all files in a folder, but because of a server truncating at 2000 records its not possible to download all of the 4000 files.

I can access the files via wget http. although there is no folder list that gives me all the file names, however, I know that the files are named, 1 - 4000.txt.

how would I download all of the files, starting at 1 and ending at 4000, when all the extensions are the same.

would this be a bash script that generates a list of the files?

someone please help me as i need to move all my files from my old server onto my new server before my old server gets closed down.


warm regards, Shaun

 

I need to generate a list of all of the file locations 1-4000 and then use wget to download each one after the previous one has completed.

could anyone tell me how to do this?

thanks, Shaun

 

#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 1 4000`;
do
	echo "Gonna fetch http://url.com/path/$i.txt"
	wget http://url.com/path/$i.txt 2>1 1>/dev/null
done

Code (markup):

replace http://url.com/path/$i.txt with the approprite url ...

 

Thank you! you are a life saver! I owe you a beer!

 

Ouch, I had thought of the same shell script only to find it has been done while replying!

Nice it worked!