How do I write a Perl script to use curl to process a URL?

Question

I have a very simple task. I have a crontab that will run a script every hour. The script is meant to simply process a URL.

This is what I have. It doesn\'t work. I get

Answer 1

To call any shell command from Perl, you can use system:

system "curl http://domain.com/page.html";

Just enclose the shell command in quotes.