File::Download 0.1 -- a module for downloading large files Copyright (c) 2009 Byrne Reese, Gisle Aas. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. To install this module, please run: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install For more information on the module, please see the POD documentation inside Download.pm. ("perldoc File::Download", once it is installed.) DISCLAIMER The code for this module is taken almost entirely from the lwp-download script found in LWP or libwww-perl. It has been abstracted into a module for better portability and re-use. USAGE my $dwn = File::Download->new({ file => $argfile, overwrite => 1, mode => ($opt{a} ? 'a' : 'b'), }); print "Downloading $url\n"; print $dwn->download($url); print $dwn->status();