Hello again, Datz_cozee75,

For user input with timeout, you can use the Prompt::Timeout module:

use Prompt::Timeout;
use constant TIMEOUT => 5;

...

if (defined($size_remote))
{
    my $default = ($size_remote == $size_local) ? 'N' : 'Y';
    my $answer  =  prompt('Overwrite?', $default, TIMEOUT);
    
    upload($_) if $answer =~ /^Y/i;    # overwrite
}
else
{
    upload($_);
}
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Notes:

• If $size_remote is undef, testing it with eq or == will produce a warning — so don’t do that.

• $size_remove and $size_local are both integers, so prefer == to eq for the equality comparison.

Two additional observations:

1. The loop condition:

   while (defined ($_ = readdir($eh)))
   [download]

   can be written more concisely as:

   while (readdir($eh))
   [download]

2. It’s inefficient to use captures in a regex if those captures aren’t needed. Use grouping (non-capturing) parentheses:

   my $pattern = join '|', map "(?:$_)", @filetypes;
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   or, in this case, omit the parentheses altogether:

   my $pattern = join '|', @filetypes;
   
   ...
   
   while (readdir($eh))
   {
       next if /~$/ || -d || !/$pattern/i;
       ...
   [download]

Hope that helps,

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