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GLOBBING
You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing lists within braces or ranges within brackets. We call this "globbing".
Provide a list with three different names like this:
http://site.{one,two,three}.com
Do sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:
ftp://ftp.example.com/file[1-100].txt
With leading zeroes:
ftp://ftp.example.com/file[001-100].txt
With letters through the alphabet:
ftp://ftp.example.com/file[a-z].txt
Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each other:
http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html
You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or letter:
http://example.com/file[1-100:10].txt
http://example.com/file[a-z:2].txt
When using [] or {} sequences when invoked from a command line prompt, you probably have to put the full URL within double quotes to avoid the shell from interfering with it. This also goes for other characters treated special, like for example '&', '?' and '*'.
Switch off globbing with --globoff.