#!/bin/bash FTP_BASE='ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod' pushd $(dirname $(readlink -f $0)) pushd ./data if [[ ! -f ish-history.csv ]] then curl -O $FTP_BASE/ish-history.csv fi for year in 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 do tarname=gsod_$year.tar if [[ ! -f $tarname ]] then curl -O $FTP_BASE/$year/$tarname fi tar xf $tarname for gzfile in *-$year.op.gz do : done done