FTP, in fact, probably would never be able to accomplish this. I'm not even sure how you'd do this, unless you sent and recieved perl code/data over TCP/IP client/server, or do an NFS mount or something like that.

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do you mean getting or putting them by "ftp" them?

and further:

$> perldoc Net::FTP
/find
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I'm just curious, really no pun intended, after reading the docs, why did you think this should work?

If the file-count on the ftp-server side isn't to large, your recursive ls approach should work ok, because you can perform the find in your perl-script, it is kind of brute force, though.

maybe if you comment a bit on why you want to do that, the monastery may come up with a feasible solution

Thanks for your notes. I have also tried

@data=$ftp->ls("-R");
foreach $line (@data)
{
     $ftp->get($line); 
     print $line."\n";
}
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But it doesn't work because it stops at the . or .. directories. The 'get' line chokes there. My 'Find' question obviously won't work as it only returns me the local files. I am just out of tricks on this one. In short, what I am trying to do, is: FTP there cd to a dir. get all the files there and below. close connection. seems simple.

You could try somthing like this (untested!)

@data=$ftp->ls("-R");
 foreach $line (@data)
 {
    if !($line =~ m/^\.{1,2}/){
        print "fetching " . $line . "\n";
        $ftp->get($line) ; 
    }
}
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It sounds though as if wget or rsync could be useful in your case ( I don't know if there are modules out there providing the same functionality). you can call both tools via system, if the ftp-get part is just a fraction of the big picture of your project.

Update: changed punctuation to clarify the meaning


regards,
tomte

---

my $ftpSession;

if (login($current, getPass($current))) {
    @dirs = retrDirs();
    @goodFiles = retrFiles();
    
    foreach (@goodFiles) { {Insert code here} }
    if (@dirs) {
        foreach (@dirs) {
            _recparseTree ($_,"");
        }
    }        
}

#This begins a new ftp session with a passed username and password
sub login {
    my ($user, $pass) = @_;
    $ftpSession = Net::FTP->new($server, Debug => 0) or die printError
+Entry ("", "Error logging into server.");    
    $ftpSession->login($user,$pass) or return 0;
    $ftpSession->cwd("{base dir}");
    return 1;
}

#This simply gets the current directory.
sub getStruct {
    return $ftpSession->ls();
}

#This reads the current directory, and picks out all .html, .htm, .htm
+lx, and .pdf files, and returns an array
sub retrFiles {
    my @tempfiles = getStruct();
    my @results;
    foreach (@tempfiles) {
        if ($_ =~ m{\.HTM} || $_ =~ m{\.PDF} ) {
            push(@results,$_);
        }
    }
    return @results;
}
    
#This reads the current directory, and picks out all subdirectories, r
+eturning an array of results
sub retrDirs {
    my @tempdirs = getStruct();
    my @results;
    foreach (@tempdirs) {
        if ($_ =~ m{\.DIR} ) {
            push(@results,substr($_,0, index($_,".")));
        }        
    }
    return @results;
}

sub _recparseTree {
    #get directory name    
    my ($dir, $dirname) = @_;
    $dirname.= "\/".$dir;
    
    #Change directory to target    
    $ftpSession->cwd("[.$dir]");

    #Get the structure    
    my @tempList = retrFiles();    my @tempDirs = retrDirs();
    
    #If there are files in the directory.
    if (@tempList) {                   
             {Insert code here} 
              foreach (@tempList){     
                {Insert code here} 
            }
    } 
    
    if (@tempDirs) { foreach (@tempDirs) { _recparseTree($_, $dirname)
+; } }
    $ftpSession->cwd("..");        
}
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