getstore

• The Perl LWP modules are for writing web clients

• They come with some example programs

• One of these is GET:

     GET http://www.google.com/

• This fetches the specified URL and prints it out to standard output

• Often someone will hand me some longish URL, and I'll do

     GET http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/courses/205.03/bloom.html > bloom.html

• Saving the resulting document to a file is the most common thing I do

• The URL part is no problem, because that's just a mouse click to paste it

• But retyping the filename is a pain

• Hence getstore:

     getstore http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/courses/205.03/bloom.html

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