Totally GREEN: Perl/Shell Copy

Shavonn · 07-18-2012, 03:43 PM

Need a Perl script to copy an html page at a URL to the local server.

I've searched all around but I don't know enough to have any grasp on how to adapt anything for my purpose.

I wish to copy the live poll results over to the server and then move it to our includes dir.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

whizje · 07-18-2012, 03:56 PM

Try

Code:

wget "url"

TB0ne · 07-18-2012, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shavonn

Need a Perl script to copy an html page at a URL to the local server.
I've searched all around but I don't know enough to have any grasp on how to adapt anything for my purpose. I wish to copy the live poll results over to the server and then move it to our includes dir.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

We will be glad to HELP, but we're not going to write a script for you. Just putting "perl script to download web page" into Google pulls up lots of examples, like this one, with complete explanations:

http://www.sitepoint.com/file-download-script-perl/

Shavonn · 07-20-2012, 09:43 AM

Figured it out on my own. Thanks, anyway. :-)

Code:

#!/bin/sh

/opt/oss/bin/wget URL -O /TMP/DIR/file.html
cp /TMP/DIR/file.html  /www/INCLUDE/DIR/file.html
*CALLED PROCESS TO PUBLISH TO SPECIFIC SERVER*  /www/INCLUDE/DIR/file.html

sleep 60

TB0ne · 07-20-2012, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shavonn

Figured it out on my own. Thanks, anyway. :-)

Code:

#!/bin/sh

/opt/oss/bin/wget URL -O /TMP/DIR/file.html
cp /TMP/DIR/file.html  /www/INCLUDE/DIR/file.html
*CALLED PROCESS TO PUBLISH TO SPECIFIC SERVER*  /www/INCLUDE/DIR/file.html

sleep 60

Great...but that's not a perl script, like your first post said you needed.