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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

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give this a go (untested but it should work)

#!/usr/bin/ruby

loop do
  puts(system("wget http://...."))
  sleep 1
end

just modify the wget to suit your needs

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Oops take out teh puts (i tested it in irb with system ls printing the output)

#!/usr/bin/ruby

loop do
  system("wget http://....")
  sleep 1
end
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