In message <20030927060434.87530.qmail_at_web80311.mail.yahoo.com>
          Paul William <pwilliam_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 
> curl -O http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/WCIR.JPG
> and then do something (in Perl?) to rename the file to a unique name?
Ideally the name would have the date and time captured in it. Or is there
a curl saved file re-naming or unique naming feature?
>
> If I want to run that curl statement every hour, would it be best to
schedule it to run as a crontab job?

I've been doing something like this for over a year now on my Windows box
using nothing more complex than a scheduled task and a batch file.

I too give the file a unique name using the date and time, I also place the
picture on my desktop background.

Couldn't be easier thanks to cURL.

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