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in thread Automatic FTP Script?

I'm wondering if anyone has been able to find/create an mget function for Net::FTP. Thanks.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Automatic FTP Script?
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jan 19, 2002 at 23:05 UTC
    use Net::FTP::Common;
    ...
# Get all .png files (and .PNG, .Png, etc)
for ($object->grep(Grep => qr/\.png$/i)) {
    $object->get(File => $_);
}

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    Note: this uses a regex, not a glob! And this snippet would also download files with names ending in ".png\n". 

    2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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