Newb: Bash Script, Increase Numerical,

[lucky_winner]

Forgive the first post, but I rarely ask and usually research, but I'm getting frustrated from my adventures the last couple of hours and thought I'd swallow my pride and ask for help.

I am in charge of restoring some text files from an external server I don't have access to. I want to create a script that creates a directory, downloads the text files from the corresponding folder. The task is easy since the text files are numerical so the structure of my task would be:

create folder 001
download "text 1-213.txt"
create folder 002
download "text 1-213.txt"
etc...

How would be the best way to go about this? I've only had a few days experience creating bash scripts so I am a total newb, but I'm having fun learning. Here is what I have so far... a version where I would manually have to copy, paste, and then increase which is completely impracticable because of the size of my task.

#!/bin/bash

mkdir /home/USER/curl/10000

cd /home/USER/curl/10000

curl 'http://SERVER/10000/text[1-213].txt' -O

mkdir /home/USER/curl/10001

cd /home/USER/curl/10001

curl 'http://SERVER/10001/text[1-213].txt' -O

find . -name "*.txt" -size -4k  | xargs rm

But I'd like it to have a structure like-

#!/bin/bash

# mkdir.cd, and URL all increase by 1, but not infinite.  !  Or prompt for number range

$x=0

mkdir 1000$x (n then + 1)

cd 1000$x (n then + 1)

curl 'http://SERVER/1000$x(n then + 1)/text[1-213].txt' -O

find . -name "*.txt" -size -4k  | xargs rm

Thanks for reading and any help/knowledge is greatly appreciated!

[wje_lf]

Play with this script. Notice the contrast between how the single quotes and the double quotes work. It shows you why you want to use double quotes. (But in the very first echo statement, it doesn't make any difference.)

#!/bin/bash

echo -n "Enter the top directory number (try 1015, for example) > "

read limit

thousand=1000;

while [[ $thousand -le $limit ]]
do
  echo 'http://SERVER/$thousand/text'
  echo "http://SERVER/$thousand/text"

  thousand=$(($thousand+1))
done

[lucky_winner]

Schweet! Definitely something to play with, you're the bestest!