macOS Need help to automatically download from file server

[Fzang]

Basically, the files are laid out

URL/file001.extension
URL/file002.extension
URL/file003.extension
URL/file....

And so forth.

Is there any way I can automatically access and download all instances of URL/file***.extension simultaneously?

 

[superscape]

I'm not 100% sure how you mean. Are the files in a mounted share (e.g. over afp, smb) or are you getting at them over http (e.g. downloading them from a website).

Either way, using a shell command is probably going to be the best bet.

 

[MasConejos]

"curl URL/file[001-100].extension" form the command line might do it. Replace 100 with whatever the final file number is

 

[superscape]

Yup, if you're downloading over HTTP then curl is a sensible way forward as suggested above. If it's a share you have mounted then you can do it like this:

find /Volumes/rest/of/your/path -name "file[0-9][0-9][0-9].jpg" -exec cp "{}" /path/to/folder/on/your/mac/ \;

If you're not sure of the paths then remember that you can drag a folder to the Terminal to find them out.

Hope that's of some help.