Re: wget in scripts

On 8 Nov 2004, at 05:44, Malcolm Mill wrote:
> I'm using wget, a perl script and a shell script to download files
> from serveral directories on a web server.
>
> The URLs I'm passing to wget are of the form:
>
> http://www.foo.br/001/ -  http://www.foo.br/050/
>
> My perl script loops through the numbers 1-50, inserting each
> iteration in a string representing the URL. I call it from my shell
> script and redirect output to a text file. I then call wget from the
> same shell script passing the name of this text file to wget's
> --input-file option.
>
> I want to do this all in Perl and avoid messing around with shell
> scripts or batch files.
>
> Also, is there a simple way of constructing the numbers 001-050 for my
> URL strings?

$ perl -e 'system sprintf("wget http://www.for.br/%03d/", $_) for  
(1..50);'


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