Re: Re: LWP::Simple

The app already uses a cron to ftpget the files, the problem now is trying to get it to download a wildcard. Say there is a file on the server thats called hi20020326-1000.csv then hi20020326-1030.csv then hi20020326-1031.csv I need to say, get hi*.csv Thank you for you input anyways. Hope you can help with this

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Re: Re: Re: LWP::Simple by zengargoyle (Deacon) on Mar 26, 2002 at 06:24 UTC
try using 'mget hi.csv' where 'get hi.csv' doesn't work. try reading the documentation for ftpget, i'm almost certain the answer to your question is there. check out Net::FTP and skip ftpget. tell the PHB to stop being so anal or hire a consultant to fix his data-management nightmare. Update: A google search turned up some circa 1993 pure perl/ftp code to get listings, files, and simple mirroring. I'm thinking about posting it for hy^Histe^Horical value, came in a email as a shar file no less...;) Any interest?	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: LWP::Simple
by zengargoyle (Deacon) on Mar 26, 2002 at 06:24 UTC

try using 'mget hi*.csv' where 'get hi*.csv' doesn't work.

try reading the documentation for ftpget, i'm almost certain the answer to your question is there.

check out Net::FTP and skip ftpget.

tell the PHB to stop being so anal *or* hire a consultant to fix his data-management nightmare.

Update: A google search turned up some circa 1993 pure perl/ftp code to get listings, files, and simple mirroring. I'm thinking about posting it for hy^Histe^Horical value, came in a email as a shar file no less...;)

Any interest?

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