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

I need a perl script that helps me download MP3 and PDF files from my site without opening it.

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Re: How to download a file
by projekt21 (Friar) on Feb 26, 2002 at 12:24 UTC

    Have a look at LWP::Simple to start with. 

    use LWP::Simple;
my $url = "http://www.foo.com/mp3s/foo.mp3";
my $file = "/path/to/local/file/foo.mp3";
getstore($url, $file);

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    Plus some error handling and "use strict;" and maybe some more features and you'll be lucky.

    alex pleiner <alex@zeitform.de>
    zeitform Internet Dienste

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