[OZAPRS] APRS / findu.com / PERL help needed

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:27:18AM +1000, Andrew Rich wrote:
> I am trying to get a history of raw data from findu.com.
> 
> Here is my perl code
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> system ("wget
>
'http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/raw.cgi?call=vk4tec-9&start=0&length=24&time
=h
> our' > /var/www/html/vk4tec_stuff/aprs_history.txt");
> 
> it produces some funnies.

wget doesn't print its output, it downloads a file.

You have a few options.

1. wget -o <filename> <url>
   to get the output in a fixed filename; no need to redirect wget

2. 'lynx -dump > <filename>' will do it;

3. Use libwww-perl to do the HTTP entirely within your perl program
   Google for libwww-perl, LWP, etc.

Hamish
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