Hi,

I need to retrieve multiple files (about 408 to be exact) and wanted to automate the process.

I've used something like this to retrieve pages before:

`wget -Oxml1.xml 'http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&ItemPage=1' `;
`wget -Oxml2.xml 'http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&ItemPage=2' `;
`wget -Oxml3.xml 'http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&ItemPage=3' `;

But I need to go up to

`wget -Oxml408.xml 'http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&ItemPage=408' `;

Since I'm basically a perl virgin, I wasn't sure how to code this, although I believe it should be relatively simple.

The urls above are just examples, the data I want isn't actually there.

Once I get all of these files, I'd like to combine them into one XML file. The first and last files will be different, but I can manually adjust those. So, basically all I'd need to do for docs xml2.xml through xml407.xml is strip everything before the first instance of <Item> and at the bottom </Items></ItemSearchResponse> needs to be stripped off.

So each file would now consist of something like:

<Item>data here</Item>
<Item>data here</Item>
<Item>data here</Item>

Then xml2.xml through xml407.xml needs to be combined to merge all of these items.

I'd gladly paypal $20 to whomever can help me with a solution that works.

Thanks!

Robert
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