# Download Files In Parallel This is a quick way to download files from different URLs in parallel. ## List all URLs in a file `urls.txt` ``` https://example.com/file1.zip https://example.com/file2.zip https://example.com/file3.zip https://example.com/file4.zip ``` ## One-liner download using `wget` ```shell cat urls.txt | xargs -P 4 -n 1 wget ``` `-P ` sets number of parallel processes. Use `0` for maximum. ## One-liner download using `wget` ```shell cat urls.txt | xargs -P 0 -n 1 curl -O ``` `-P ` sets number of parallel processes. Use `0` for maximum.