using curl with awk in command line/shell script

[leopardysnow]

I have a text file url.txt with urls one per line. Something like:

http://www.something.com/image1.jpg

http://www.something.com/image2.jpg

...

If I put the following command in command line or in a shell script it works fine:

cat urls.txt | awk '{ print $0}'

This simply prints out the content of urls.txt line by line

So now I want to go 'get' the images from the urls so I thought I could do something similarly with curl such as

cat urls.txt | awk '{ curl --remote-name $0 }'

but this isn't working.
What I thought this would do is substitue each url from url.txt in $0 so that I would be doing a

curl --remote-name [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.something.com/image1.jpg[/URL]

and so on.
Any ideas how to use curl with awk and use a variable instead of hardcoded http value(since my urls are coming from a text file)? Thanks.

 

[PumpgunMessiah]

You can use the "System" function to execute shell commands within AWK:

cat urls.txt | awk '{ system("curl --remote-name " $0 }'

 

[Annihilannic]

I'd use xargs:

xargs -n1 curl --remote-name <url.txt

Annihilannic
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