tlug: Web browsing from a batch file?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Cook <darren@example.com> writes:

    Darren> Is it possible to have a batch file (started by cron each
    Darren> night) access a web server and then email the resulting
    Darren> HTML page? Is this something best done in perl? Can it be
    Darren> done with perl -e do you think?

There is a program called www-get or httpget or something like that
(maybe several of them).  Probably a perl script.  Find it, and then
it's a one-liner (don't trust that, I don't know for sure it will
cough it up on stdout, do RTFM first ;-):

wwwget $URL | sendmail $USER

Modularity rules.

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