How to download a file in perl?

[jonx]

I just had a quick question about how to download a file in perl. Lets say I wanted to download a file using the http at the URL: "

http://www.someplace.com/somefile.html".

How would I go about downloading that file? I am hoping to download that file and place it in a specified folder. How would I go about that too?


Also, is it possible to use bash commands such "mv" "rm" or "mkdir" in my perl scripts? Thanks for the help

-Jon

 

[duncdude]

use LWP::Simple;

open (GETFILE, ">fromtheweb.txt"

$html = get("

http://www.someplace.com/somefile.html");

print GETFILE "$html\n\n";

close GETFILE;

Duncan