Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

[Steve Holden]

Richard Ivarson wrote:
> Richard Ivarson schrieb:
> [..]
>>  A) *wget*
>> Fetching the files with wget works:
>>  wget --user=NAME --password=PASS 
>> https://webdavserver.com/folder/fileAA.txt
>>
>> I've seen two handicaps:
>> 1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the 
>> script
> [..]
>>  curl --user NAME:PASSWORD
>> https://webdavserver.com/folder/{fileAA,fileBB,fileCC,fileDD,fileEE,}.txt 
>> -O -O -O -O -O
> 
> ... I forgot to mention: In contrast to A)1) with curl you can ommit the 
> ":PASSWORD" in the script. The curl then nicely asks for it at runtime.
> 
I don't know about getting rid of the five -O's (have you tried it with 
just one to see whether that does what you want?), but you could shorten 
the command line a bit using

https://webdavserver.com/folder/file{AA,BB,CC,DD,EE}.txt

The shell quite happily expands braces as a portion of a filename:

sholden@bigboy ~
$ echo https://server/path/file{AA,BB,CC,DD,EE}.txt
https://server/path/fileAA.txt https://server/path/fileBB.txt 
https://server/path/fileCC.txt https://server/path/fileDD.txt 
https://server/path/fileEE.txt

regards
  Steve
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