wget

So a few days ago I was browsing a site

http://www.speedbicycles.ch/showBike.php?enr=442

and I wanted to download the images, but there are like 72 of them and I don't want to right click each one and save them. So I was thinking since I could use wget, but I don't want to download the whole site. I just want the pictures of this sweet looking bike! So I took a look at the URL for the images and sure enough they are all using a simple naming scheme (e.g. speed_001.jpg). So what immediately comes to mind is a bash script with a for loop calling wget to download all the images for me (because you know as programmers we are lazy).

#!/bin/bash
NUM=72

for ((i=1; i<=NUM; i++)) {

    if [ $i -lt 10 ]
    then
        ADD="http://www.speedbicycles.ch/bikes/442/bigPic/speed_00${i}.jpg"
        wget ${ADD}
    else
        ADD="http://www.speedbicycles.ch/bikes/442/bigPic/speed_0${i}.jpg"
        wget ${ADD}
    fi
}

I'm not saying that this is the only way to do this, it's just what came to mind when faced with the problem.

Adding Environmental Paths in Ubuntu Linux

I decided to work on some Android development project on Ubuntu. I had to switch because a library I was trying to use had to be built with the Android NDK. (Windows really took a dump on me when I tried to use Cygwin). Since this was my first install of Android and Java on my linux machine, I had to setup the PATHS in order for me to use them in terminal. Here is how to add them

#open your terminal and type
nano ~/.bashrc

#Add to the top of file: (remember you have to tell linux where the sdk directory is)
#for me, I had my SDK in the home/username directory represented by ~.
export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/tools
export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools

#press ctrl + X, then Y to confirm and ENTER to exit
#More than likely, you will need to restart
#When you open terminal, you should be able to 
#type 'android' without quotations and it should bring up SDK manager