AMPL Book Download Script

AMPL provides their user manual freely here.

This is a shell script that

  • downloads them
  • renames them to their human title
  • creates a compressed file for backup
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
# -*- mode: sh; -*-
OLDDOWNLOADDIR=$DOWNLOADDIR
DOWNLOADDIR="$HOME/tmp/AMPLBOOK-`date +%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S%z`"
mkdir $DOWNLOADDIR
cd $DOWNLOADDIR
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./01-Title_Pages-title.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/01-title.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./02-Table_of_Contents-contents.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/02-contents.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./03-Introduction-intro.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/03-intro.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./04-Chapter_01-Production_Models-_Maximizing_Profits-tut1.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/04-tut1.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./05-Chapter_02-Diet_and_Other_Input_Models-_Minimizing_Costs-tut2.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/05-tut2.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./06-Chapter_03-Transportation_and_Assignment_Models-tut3.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/06-tut3.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./07-Chapter_04-Building_Larger_Models-tut4.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/07-tut4.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./08-Chapter_05-Simple_Sets_and_Indexing-sets1.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/08-sets1.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./09-Chapter_06-Compound_Sets_and_Indexing-sets2.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/09-sets2.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./10-Chapter_07-Parameters_and_Expressions-params.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/10-params.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./11-Chapter_08-Linear_Programs-_Variables._Objectives_and_Constraints-linprog.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/11-linprog.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./12-Chapter_09-Specifying_Data-data.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/12-data.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./13-Chapter_10-Database_Access-tables.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/13-tables.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./14-Chapter_11-Modeling_Commands-command.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/14-command.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./15-Chapter_12-Display_Commands-display.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/15-display.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./16-Chapter_13-Command_Scripts-script.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/16-script.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./17-Chapter_14-Interactions_with_Solvers-solvers.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/17-solvers.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./18-Chapter_15-Network_Linear_Programs-network.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/18-network.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./19-Chapter_16-Columnwise_Formulations-colwise.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/19-colwise.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./20-Chapter_17-Piecewise-Linear_Programs-piecewise.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/20-piecewise.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./21-Chapter_18-Nonlinear_Programs-nonlinear.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/21-nonlinear.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./22-Chapter_19-Complementarity_Problems-complement.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/22-complement.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./23-Chapter_20-Integer_Linear_Programs-integer.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/23-integer.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./24-Appendix-refman.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/24-refman.pdf
curl --limit-rate 56K -o ./25-Index-index.pdf http://ampl.com/BOOK/CHAPTERS/25-index.pdf
DOWNLOADDIR=$OLDDOWNLOADDIR