Hi funstence.

I wrote a simple program that you might find useful. 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple; 

my $file = 'test.txt'; 
my $content = get('http://www. google.com'); 

open FH, " >", "$file" or die "Error: $!\n"; 
print FH $content until -s $file >= 25; 

# I routinely include code to check for a successful closing
# of the filehandle since a hardware error could occur.
close FH or die "Error: $!\n";

[download]


Hope this helps,
~Katie

In reply to Re: Download only part of a file from the web by DigitalKitty
in thread Download only part of a file from the web by funstence

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