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Basically, I want to download a file off of the internet every sunday night, at say, 8:00 pm without my having to open up Safari. I'm not really a Unix jock so I was wondering if there is a quick and easy way to accomplish this.
Then edit your crontab file to execute the wget command you need at a specific time every day. There is a pretty good crontab tutorial here. Scroll down to the section on editing your user crontab and set it up that way.
If you aren't too familiar with the command line than you will probably want to edit your crontab file with the pico text editor rather than vi (pico is much more user-friendly). To do this enter this command: export VISUAL=pico What this does is sets the "VISUAL" environment variable in your shell to pico. That way when you type "crontab -e" as specified in the tutorial above you will be editing your crontab in pico instead of vi which is the default. For more on environment variables take a look at this page: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/ma...2/24/bash.html
curl is already installed on the system, and you can schedule it with cron like i_m_a_l_e_x suggested. My one tip on this would be to make sure you have absolute paths on everything (like /usr/bin/curl) as cron tends to run without environmental variables being set.
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