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Download X random images from lorempixel.com
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Download_X_Lorem_Pixel_Images.sh
# usage : sh download.sh 100
# will download 100 pics
START=1
for i in $(eval echo "{$START..$1}")
do
curl "http://lorempixel.com/index.php?generator=1&x=640&y=480&cat=" -o temp.html && cat temp.html | sed -n 's/.*<img src="\([^" ]*\)".*/\1/p' | awk '{print "http://lorempixel.com/"$1}' | xargs curl -o $i.jpg
done
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if some one wants to have some random word appended to the filename instead of numbers just use the following one on Linux

random_word=shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/words

and replace $i with $random_word$i

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