Perlwannabe wrote: > > There is a .pdf file on a website that I would like to download on a daily > basis. The site puts up a new .pdf file everyday and I would like to > write a simple script to download the file to my computer. > > The URL basically adds the name of the file with the date, i.e. > > http://www.samplesite.com/files/August23.pdf > > all I want to do is get the file. Obviously the .pdf will change to > August24.pdf on the 24th. I looked all over and the stuff available looks > way to sophisticated for what I want (i.e. mywebget). I just want a > simple script to download the file. > > Seems easy enough, but tough to find information on how to do it.
This should work (untested): #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use POSIX 'strftime'; use LWP::Simple; my $url = 'http://www.samplesite.com/files'; my $file = strftime '%B%d.pdf', localtime; getstore( "$url/$file", $file ); __END__ John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
