use strict; use Net::FTP; my $host = 'mysite.net'; my $login = 'mylogin'; my $passwd = 'mypasswd'; my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($host); my $RC = $ftp->login($login, $passwd); if (not $RC) { print "\n\nFTP Login to Remote Host: '$host' failed!\n\n"; print "No files updated from Remote host: '$host'!\n\n"; exit; } ### Delete local copy of remote host ftp files my $infile = "test" . ' ' . "file"; ### also the following works too # my $infile = "test file"; if (-e $infile) { unlink $infile; } ### Make new local copy of remote host ftp files $RC = $ftp->get($infile); if (not $RC) { print "\n\nget command for remote file: '$infile' failed!\n"; print "No files updated from Remote host: '$host'.\n\n"; exit; } $ftp->quit; print "Finished!";