Re: Daily download query

Hullo, -G-:

Hugh Newbury wrote:

I need to download automatically a file from the internet at the same
time every day. What is the simplest way to do this?


What about a cron job calling wget?

man cron
man wget

Terrific! wget works like a dream. And cron doesn't look too bad.

V many thanks.

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset
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