de2425 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks;

Thanks for taking time to look at my question. This may be off-topic since it's more of a UNIX/server question but I thought you might be able to help me. I would like to know if there is a programatic way to run something like wget on a unix server and have the output go to an external hard drive that I have on my local workstation. I honestly have no idea how to go about this so I don't have any code to post. I was just wondering if it was possible and if anyone might be able to show me how to go about it. Thanks so much in advance for your help!!

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Re: Save Files On Server To Local Comp
by Marshall (Canon) on Aug 24, 2009 at 18:38 UTC
    This goes for both Unix and Windows, if you can type a command at the command prompt (the shell), then you can redirect the output to a file. 

    prompt: ls  >file
prompt: dir >file
etc.

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    On both Unix and Windows you can also redirect STDOUT and STDERR to different files. On Unix there is a standard program called "tee", ls | tee outfile, will send output to console and also to the file outfile.

    Update:

    This wget thing looks pretty cool:

    http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_wget.htm

    But basically, if you can access the directories on the remote machine with a file path using say, 'ls' on Unix, you don't need or want wget.

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Re: Save Files On Server To Local Comp
by Taulmarill (Deacon) on Aug 24, 2009 at 18:55 UTC
    You can use ssh to run a command on a remote machine and then redirect the output to a file. man ssh for details.
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