If so, and if you are not specifying an absolute path to your final destination, you could be pulling the file into a default location, which is the directory where the script resides. Or in the case of a cron job, the users home directory. Now, you could do a chdir() prior to invoking Net::FTP and put your process into the destination directory. Or, you might be able to specify where you want the file in your "GET" statement. Since you are only involving two servers, there really does not seem to be a need to do two FTP's.

You might try something like this:

chdir("/local/destination/for/file") or die "Cannot chdir $!";
$ftp->get("myfile.txt","my_new_file.txt");
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$ftp->get("/remote/path/to/file/myfile.txt","/local/path/to/file/myfil
+e.txt");
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