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:
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
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
   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.

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

I'd use xargs:

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