1. There shall NEVER be an else after a return/exit/croak/die! NEVER!
  2. You call wget from a composed string. If the $url has " in there (or worse, a ; followed by a command as haukex poited out in Re: wget not working from perl), quotation as you use it might fail: 
      my $COMMAND = "wget -q -O $FILENAME $URL";
  print `$COMMAND`;

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    --->

     open my $sh, "-|", "wget", "-q", "-O", $FILENAME, $URL;
 print <$sh>;
 close $sh;

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    is much safer.

  3. Why do you use all those capitalized variable names?
  4. Why use a shell escape anyway? 
     use LWP::Simple;
 is_success (getprint ($URL)) or warn "Fetch failed";

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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: wget not working from perl by Tux
in thread wget not working from perl by harangzsolt33

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