Script to download file using wget

Feb 13, 2007 1 Replies

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techie.embedded 19 years ago

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

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Lew Pitcher 19 years ago

#!/bin/bash cd /download/directory while true ; do wget http://some/file/somewhere.txt sleep 1 done

HTH

-- Lew

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