man 1 crontab – You can schedule a wget with it which solves your intial question (saving to a directory shared from Windows is a case of mounting said share with smbfs).
For a general scripting reference I suggest info bash or the online version of the same. It doesn't exactly include tutorials (You might try BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO on the Linux Documentation Project), but it does contain almost everything you need to know about using bash (CSH fans go take your pathetic arguments elsewhere, bash is just fine, thankyou), and scripting it is literally just putting that usage into a file. If you ever find you need something more flexible, there's other stuff.
For the web, I'd recommend you start from The Apache docs and go from there. You might find URL rewriting interesting for this application.
It's overkill for what you're asking, but, another option is to read up on CGI. Apache allows you to use Scripting Language of choice for that. I learned CGI in deadtree form, Gundavaram - "CGI Programming on the World Web Web"; 1996, O'Reilly & Associates |
