[MacGorilla]

Hi all

I am trying to wrap a gui around wget. I know this has been done before but I am trying to learn AppleScript. What code would I use to invoke wget in AppleScript?

[Camelot]

wget is a Unix utility, not a Macintosh application, so you can't use the normal 'tell application "wget"...' syntax

The simple solution is:

do shell script "wget http://www.apple.com/"

note that the output would be saved in the current directory since that's wget's normal action. If you want to read the document into an AppleScript variable, it would be easier to use curl since curl writes output to stdout:

set theHTMLDoc to do shell script "curl http://www.apple.com/"

now theHTMLDoc contains the HTML for Apple's top page.