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

Hello All, All of us are aware of the very famous and very easy to use linux command "wget" which is widely used to download Internet stuff. I just wanted to know a perl module using which we can download in the same fashion...

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Re: Perl module to download stuff...
by adityadennis (Novice) on Sep 06, 2009 at 16:53 UTC
    lwp-download is the best one by far: http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.831/bin/lwp-download
      LWP on CPAN:
      http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.831/lib/LWP.pm