Bash script — wget doesn't use a variable with "{}" correctly

Question

I'm using a script that downloads images. I am having issues while running the wget command with a variable that contains "{" and "}" characters. It transforms into "%7B" and "%7D".

Here is part of the script

wget -nd -H -p -A jpg,jpeg,png,gif -e robots=off "$url"

The "$url" contains something like "http://webpage.com/di1/dir2/{1..26}.jpg".

Sooooo .. is there a way to fix it , becouse the command runs OK if I don't run it inside a script — Quarks
– Quarks, Commented Jan 6, 2014 at 2:41
use for url in http://webpage.com/di1/dir2/{1..26}.jpg; do wget ... done .... you can even add an & to download in parallel — technosaurus
– technosaurus, Commented Jan 6, 2014 at 2:41

Quarks · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-06 03:33:51Z

2

I just did a Loop

for i in {1..50}
do
  wget "$url$i.jpg"
done

answered Jan 6, 2014 at 3:33

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