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Wget a series of files in order

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How do you download a series of files with wget like so:

http://www.example.com/index.php?file=1

http://www.example.com/index.php?file=2

http://www.example.com/index.php?file=3

...

http://www.example.com/index.php?file=500

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wget supports downloading more than a file with a single command. This means that you can take advantage of your shell features like so:

wget http://www.example.com/index.php?file={1..500}

If your URLs are in a file (one URL per line) or on standard input, you can also use wget's -i option.