Dear Perl Monks,

Strawberry Perl 5.24.0.1 for Windows. 
$ rpm -qa \*vsftp\*
vsftpd-3.0.3-3.fc25.x86_64

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I am trying to recursively delete directories on an FTP server (vsftp) with Net::FTP with Windows with Perl 5
$ftp->rmdir ( "${Ordered_List[$Index]}", 1 );

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Problem:  $ftp->rmdir doesn't wait for the operation to finish.  And if I go on to another FTP command of any type before rmdir finishes, the rmdir command will terminate, leaving the directory, or what is left of it, in place.  I am having to guess at how long to wait with the "sleep" command.

How do I wait for rmdir to finish and not guess at it?  The directory size could be a big as 30 GB in the future.

Many thanks,
-T

In reply to Need Net::FTP rmdir time out help by Todd Chester

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