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Let me start by saying that I know nothing about Cron, so sorry. How can I make a php or perl script get files from my computer and upload them to my web server everyday at midnight?
The webserver is linux. The computer from which the files need to be retrieved is Windows.
Cron will start a script or run a command on the local computer (the computer running cron) at regular intervals. If you can run a script on your computer that will upload files to your webserver, then cron can schedule that script to run at midnight every night. (Assuming you’re running an operating system that has cron or something cron-like.) Cron will not, however, help you write the script to upload the files.