Downloading using Perl

[justme77]

Hi all,
I would like to automate downloading of files form the using perl. I can live with entering URL and path for the file to be downloaded from the internet. Any ideas? Is there any Perl modules that I can use?
Thank you for answering. cheers,
Just Me!!

 

[goBoating]

If you are trying to retreive web pages, use LWP. If you are trying to retreive files from an ftp server, use NET::FTP.

Example of LWP::SIMPLE,
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use LWP::SIMPLE;
$page = get("

http://www.some.server.com/some_page.html");

It has been a while since I played with NET::FTP. I'll leave it for you to check out the docs on CPAN, or someone else may chime in.

HTH,
Good Luck


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