Re: [Fun With Perl] index.html

[Fergal Daly <fergal@esatclear.ie>]

>As long as I'm babbling about automated file extraction... a utility
>I've always wanted was one that could iterate through a sequence of
>URLs.  Say the docs for your favorite program are ONLY available as
>HTML from some web site.  And to make matters worse, they're ONLY
>avaialble as SPLIT HTML files (doc01.html, doc02.html...).  SUCK!
>
>So you want something that, given a specially formatted URL, can just
>iterate through the sequence, sucking down as it goes.  AFAIK, no such
>thing exists.

It won't handle authentication or referer but I just use something like this?

perl -e 'for $i (1..10){system sprintf("wget
http://www.foo.com/docs/docs%02d.html", $i)}'

Fergal



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