Copying files

Chady has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow Monks..

Well, I'm starting to learn more and more Perl; Until now, all I have done is Form Handling on the web, and basic file read/write on both the web and my local hard drive, because I work a lot on text files that have to do with strings matching and substituting... (initiate in RegEx also).

What I need to know is;

for ex:

http://www.somesite.com/downloads/file1.exe

thanx in advance

Chady | http://chady.net/

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Re: Copying files by clemburg (Curate) on Jan 22, 2001 at 21:32 UTC
`perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getstore("http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=53544", "try.html")'` [download] Christian Lemburg Brainbench MVP for Perl http://www.brainbench.com	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Copying files by davorg (Chancellor) on Jan 22, 2001 at 21:29 UTC
Sounds to me like the LWP::Simple (or some other module from the LWP bundle) will do just what you want. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Perl makes the fun jobs fun and the boring jobs bearable" - me	[reply]