Self-hatred

[Bash] Download an Imgur album

If I see one more rectangle this morning, I will scream. Instead I am writing a very simple Imgur gallery downloader for a friend, using extant Bash utilities.

#!/bin/bash
wget $1
LIST=files.list
mv $(ls -1 .) $LIST 
# Strip the file down to the actual image links.
cat $LIST | grep href | grep jpg | grep -v rel > $LIST
# Could be a one-liner, but I like neatness.
cat $LIST | sed 's/<a href\="//g' | sed 's/">//g' > $LIST
# Download the files.
wget -i $LIST

In order:

1. You invoke it with fetch $URL.
2. The script uses grep to strip the file down to a raw list of relevant hyperlinks.
3. sed strips the formatting.
4. wget fetches the remaining files.

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