On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 06:16:31PM -0400, Champoux wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:43:26PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i have a text file containing over 100 URLs (one per line), and i > > want to produce that many PDF files of those URL pages, with output > > filenames simply 1.pdf, 2.pdf and so on -- that numbering is > > required. > > $ perl -MLWP::Simple=mirror -ne'next if /^SKIP/; \ > mirror( $_ => $..".pdf" ); print "saving $..pdf\n"' < list > > ? Wait, I might have misunderstood. Are the original links not pdfs, but you want to convert them on the fly? If so, yeah, it's going to be a mite more complicated. I did something similar in the past, if it can help: http://babyl.dyndns.org/techblog/entry/contact-sheet Joy, `/anick --