Download files using Shell script

Question

I want to download a number of files which are as follows:

http://example.com/directory/file1.txt
http://example.com/directory/file2.txt
http://example.com/directory/file3.txt
http://example.com/directory/file4.txt
.
.
http://example.com/directory/file199.txt
http://example.com/directory/file200.txt

Can anyone help me with it using shell scripting? Here is what I'm using but it is downloading only the first file.

for i in {1..200}
do
exec wget http://example.com/directory/file$i.txt;
done

Answer 1

wget http://example.com/directory/file{1..200}.txt

should do it. That expands to wget http://example.com/directory/file1.txt http://example.com/directory/file2.txt ....

Alternatively, your current code should work fine if you remove the call to exec, which is unnecessary and doesn't do what you seem to think it does.