#!/bin/bash buoy_number="42002" curl_command="https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/view_text_file.php?filename=42002hXXXX.txt.gz&dir=data/historical/stdmet/" output_file="42002_XXXX.txt" # get historical data #for value in {1983..2022} #do #echo "${url//XXXX/"$value"}" # curl ${curl_command//XXXX/"$value"} > ${output_file/XXXX/$value} #done #now get 2023 data months=("junk" "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep") month_curl="https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/view_text_file.php?filename=42002X2023.txt.gz&dir=data/stdmet/YYY/" month_output_file="42002_YYY.txt" for i in {1..8} do temo_month_curl=${month_curl/X/"$i"} #echo $temo_month_curl temo_month_curl=${temo_month_curl/YYY/"${months[i]}"} curl ${temo_month_curl} > ${month_output_file/YYY/"${months[i]}"} done # For some reason Sept URL is a totally different format curl "https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/stdmet/Sep/42002.txt" > "42002_Sep.txt" echo "done"