Have a look at mirror; I haven't used it for a while, but it always did what was advertised.

That failing, LWP (or LWP::Simple) makes it pretty easy to roll your own. If you have a relatively small/static list of files:

use LWP::Simple;

my $remote = 'ftp://ftp.example.com/path';

# All filenames relative to $remote
my @files = qw(
    file1.tar.gz   file2.tar.gz    file3.zip
    subdir/another.tar.gz
    long/path/test.txt
);

mirror("$remote/$_", "$local/$_") for @files;

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If you need to generate listings of files recursively based on listings from the server, you will probably want to have a look at Net::FTP::Recursive's rls method.

If you just need something to work with a minimum of fuss, and don't actually need a Perl solution, wget will do the trick (Win32):

wget --mirror ftp://ftp.example.com/path

In reply to Re: ftp new files by rjt
in thread ftp new files by Jim Wang

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