cron job to update a file from ftp

Question

I tried something like: wget ftp://username:password@ftp.somedomain.com/bla/blabla.txt -x /home/weptile/public_html/bla/blabla.txt

Appereantly -x writes the output :) I thought it was overwriting the file I need.

So what I'm trying to do is do daily updates on blabla.txt in this specific subdirectory from an external ftp file. I want to get the file from ftp and overwrite the old file on my server.

Answer 1

Use wget -N to overwrite existing files.

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If you get stuck on stuff like this, try man wget or heck, even Google.