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Let's suppose that I have access to a site index and in a specific directory of this index I have a lot of images, but some of those images were resized (the originals are still there). The resized images have their own name, following this standard: [image-name][-resolution].jpg, and the original images have their name following this standard: [image-name].jpg.

  • So, I'd like to know how to download all the original images, using wget?

Note: There is no space in the image names, and I specified that the file type is .jpg, because I don't know if there is any difference in downloading this type of file.

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Maybe duplicate of unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17604/… –  Arcadien Jan 21 '13 at 14:19
@Aurelien Questions are only considered as 'possible duplicates' if they are actually on Ask Ubuntu itself. –  user76204 Jan 21 '13 at 16:03
You probably want to look at the answers in this question. –  user76204 Jan 21 '13 at 16:03

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wget supports regexes with the --accept-regex parameter.

So wget -A "1024x768.jpg" would download any file ending with "1024x768.jpg". If you want different sorts of resolutions the digits can be changed to match d+. Something like:

wget -A "d+xd+.jpg$"

(pseudo example). The regex depends on the shell you use.

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