Automating Process with Perl

[TimHover]

I want to try to automate a process using Perl. At the moment, there is a web page which has got a text file as an attachment. Currently I open up the web page, save the attachment and then FTP it to a unix box. I then log onto another unix machine and navigate to a perl script called MarginReport.pl. Finally I run the perl script passing the saved text file as its only argument, i.e. MarginReport.pl new_margins.txt. This is a very manual process and I want to try to automate it using Perl. The existing perl script just opens the text file, does some formatting and then runs a stored procedure to insert the data into a database table. The web site is an online incident management ticketing system which has got a unique reference number on each web page.
How can the above manual process be more automated?

 

[max1x]

All of this can be automated. If you want to break this down into a project, you have described the requirements and can buid/test at each stage.

 

[dkyrtata]

Sounds to me that you can schedule your Perl program under cron to run every 10-15 minutes. If the the data file does not exist, the simply program exits. Otherwise the program processes the file, and perhaps logs the event or sends an email.