> I'm sure that there's a CPAN module that I can use to get a file from a > URL, but I can't find it. It needs to be able to use ftp as well as http, > as I won't know what form the URL will take. LWP will handle both so LWP::Simple may suffice: perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getstore "ftp://.../foo","/path/to/localfoo"' hth, -- Charles DeRykus