[Linux-disciples] Using curl

[Stephen R Laniel]

My understanding is that curl can download URLs with regexes in
them. At my job right now, being able to loop through a list of
strings that look like

MS1234567-MS7890123

and download the corresponding files

MS1234567-MS7890123*.pdf

would be extremely handy and a great time-saver. Yet I can't seem
to get the following to work:

curl http://blah/.../MS1234567-MS7890123*.pdf

The error I'm getting back from the server suggests that the '*'
is getting passed as a literal '*', rather than getting
interpreted within curl as a regex.

Help, please? This would probably save me a few hours of labor.

Thanks,
Steve

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