Hi
I need a Shell script that will download a text file every second from a http server using wget.
Can anyone provide me any pointers or sample scripts that will help me go about this task ???
regards
techie
Script to download file using wget
Feb 13, 2007
1 Replies
Using bash:
#!/bin/bash
cd ????? # where you want the file
while true do wget --no-host-directories http://www.xxx.yyy/aaa/bbb/??? sleep 1 done
Of course this will run at intervals slightly longer than one second, you can not achieve that kind of timing precision from a shell script.
Roberto Waltman
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