Since you want to remove the directory anyway (and I am going to assume you know the directories will always be empty) maybe you could use the following: 

use strict;
use Net::FTP;

use constant SERVER   => 'server.somewhere.com';
use constant USERID   => 'anonymous';
use constant PASSWORD => 'my.mail@somewhere.com';
use constant RMTDIR   => '/tmp';

my $mFTP;


#-- Open the connection
$mFTP = Net::FTP->new(SERVER, Debug => 0);
$mFTP->login(USERID,PASSWORD);


#-- Process the contents
$mFTP->cwd(RMTDIR);
foreach ($mFTP->ls)
{

  $mFTP->rmdir($_);

  if ($mFTP->ls($_))
  {
    print $_," is a file...\n";
  }
  else
  {
    print $_," *was* a directory...\n";

    #-- Add file create code here...
  }
}


#-- Close the connection
$mFTP->quit;

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In reply to How about this? by Rhose
in thread ftp directories by mbond

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