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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Wget call in a Perl script Post 92646 by rahulrathod on Tuesday 13th of December 2005 11:53:57 AM
Old 12-13-2005
Lightbulb Wget call in a Perl script
I've got to do a wget call in a Perl Script.

I am basically doing migration of a shell script which was previously doing it.
The code in the sh file was as follows.

wget -nv -o /tmp/wget.run.log -t 5 -w 10 http://windows-server/myapp/1try.asp?myparam=no

This wget command is executing an ASP page on a remote IIS server.

Now, this command will create a file with the name 1try.asp?myparam=no in my current directory.

The sh script actually runs many wget commands and creates many such files. Ultimately I do a cat on all files and redirect the o/p to a single csv file.
This csv file is then used by sqlldr to load into the DB.

The whole process seems very complicated and hence i want to replace this sh script wth a perl script.
Do let me know if I can exclude the use of wget and use something else.
Also, if I have to use wget how can I make the process smoother and less complicated and easy to implement and maintain.

Thanks,
Rahul.
 

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simpleftp

SIMPLEFTP(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME

       simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client

SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp ftp://...  [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       simpleftp  is  a perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.  It takes one or more ftp
       URLS on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same  basename
       as on the remote; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current directory.

BUGS

       simpleftp  is  an  extremely  poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.  It was written
       only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/ without requir-
       ing administrators to install yet another package.  Its shortcomings as a general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that
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HISTORY

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SEE ALSO

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