How to specify file names to the multiple files we are downloading using wget -I command in linux?

Question

We can download multiple links using wget -i file_name where file_name is the file that contains all URLs we have to download.

I have 3 URLs in a file for example:

google.com
facebook.com
twitter.com

I request these URLs using wget -i file_name. But, how can we specify files names to store the result?

For example,we have to store result from google.com, facebook.com, twitter.com as response1, response2, response3 respectively. Thanks in advance.

`man curl` and look at `-o` option? And sorry, but IMHO, this doesn't qualify as a programming Q. In the future, please post at http://superuser.com . Please read https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic , https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask , https://stackoverflow.com/help/dont-ask , https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve and take the [tour](https://stackoverflow.com/tour) before posting more Qs here. Good luck. — shellter, Dec 14 '17 at 14:00

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 14:21

I found similar question here Use the -O file option.

E.g.

wget google.com
...
16:07:52 (538.47 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [10728]

vs.

wget -O foo.html google.com
...
16:08:00 (1.57 MB/s) - `foo.html' saved [10728]

Referring above I come up with a solution to write a simple shell script.

It's simply like executing wget -O <URL> <filename> multiple times.

Create a file download_file.sh with contents like this

#!/bin/bash
wget https://www.google.com -O google_file
wget https://www.facebook.com -O fb_file
wget https://www.twitter.com -O twitter_file

Make the file executable
```
chmod +x download_file.sh
```
Run the file
```
./download_file.sh
```

All URL will be downloaded with filename defined in the download_file.sh. Also, you can tweak the shell script as your requirement like providing URLs from another file as the argument of this file.

How to specify file names to the multiple files we are downloading using wget -I command in linux?

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