On 14/11/2010 12:12 PM, Tim Cook wrote:
> How would I set up task scheduler to save an internet file every 3
> hours? I just got around to making a task that opens the URL in a new
> tab every 3 hours, but would rather it just saved the file (with
> timestamp added to filename) silently. Had been doing this manually for
> the past three years every 24 hours, more or less (there are some gaps
> when I couldn't do it for a few days and stutters that weren't exactly
> on time), and would like a better way of accomplishing the task.
>
> (The URL in question is
> http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/clouds/clouds_4096.jpg which updates
> every three hours...)

My inclination would be to use wget to fetch the file, and a script of 
some kind to invoke wget periodically (and decide what to name the result).

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