An easy way to do this would be to use IO::File's new_tmpfile to create a temporary file that will be automatically destroyed after it's closed, and possibly has no actual file on the file system. Then you can put the stuff to upload in that tempfile, rewind, and pass it to put(): 

use IO::File;
use Fcntl qw(:seek);

my $fh = IO::File->new_tmpfile 
  or die "Couldn't create tempfile: $!\n";

print $fh <<"END";
The contents of the file.
END

seek $fh, 0, SEEK_SET 
  or die "Couldn't rewind temp file: $!\n";

$ftp->put($fh, "ftptest");

close $fh;
# tempfile should be gone now.

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update: Note that $ftp->put(<SESAME>,"ftptest"); is not the right syntax to pass the SESAME file handle to $ftp->put. It will pass every line of the SESAME filehandle to it, causing failures from an unfound local file with a odd name. The correct syntax would probably be something like: $ftp->put(\*SESAME,"ftptest"); or $ftp->put(*SESAME,"ftptest");.

In reply to Re: ftp put without a local file by wog
in thread ftp put without a local file by fsn

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