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I'm looking for a utility that will automatically synchronize a file available via a URL ie:

www.someurl.com/file.txt

to a local location on a computer ie:

c:\files\file.txt

It needs to download a copy of the URL file and overwrite the existing file on either a schedule, or based on file changes. (not appending, not making a new file with a different extension, etc).

I've been digging around google for about half an hour and am not having any luck finding something that does that, but I know it has to be out there.

Any help is appreciated.

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  • how automatically - in other words should it constantly monitor or just run at x interval or ?
    – Nick Dickinson-Wilde
    Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 16:55
  • Instantaneous is not required - something where I could set an interval to check the source file would be fine.
    – Ryan
    Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:20

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You can use wget to retrieve the file:

  • free and open-source
  • works on Linux and Windows

You can use cron on Linux or Windows Task Scheduler on Windows to schedule your synchronization. Both are free.

Edit: to deploy you can:

  • on Windows use the command line scheduler "at": e.g. at 8am /EVERY:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su cmd /c c:\myapp.exe
  • on Linux use crontab: (crontab -l ; echo "0 * * * * your_command") | sort - | uniq - | crontab -
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  • This solution would work and if there is nothing more suited I will use it, but I have to roll this out to six or seven computers so an all in one single application would be preferred if available. Once I get this account up to 15 I'll throw an upvote your way, and a solution if nobody else comes up with something simpler.
    – Ryan
    Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:18
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    Deploy commands added to answer.
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:35

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