Dear Perl Monks,

I know I am being picky here and that I could just do two ftp->dir's twice and combine the arrays, but it is bugging me none the less.

I want to create an array that contains the contents of an ftp directory.    This is what it looks like in bash:

MyDocsBackup]$ ls -al backup1
total 12
-rw-r--r--. 1 matt users    0 Feb  5 22:06 .eraseme
-rw-r--r--. 1 matt users    0 Feb  5 22:11 eraseme2
drwxr-xr-x. 2 matt users 4096 Feb  5 22:19 eraseme.dir
-rw-r--r--. 1 matt users    0 Feb  5 22:16 eraseme.too

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You will notice the first entry starts with a dot (".").

This catches the one with the starting dot:
my @TestArray = @{$ftp->dir ( "/$BkRoot/backup1/.*" )}

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But not anything else.

These two catch everything else, but not the one with the dot:
my @TestArray = @{$ftp->dir ( "/$BkRoot/backup1/*" )}
my @TestArray = @{$ftp->dir ( "/$BkRoot/backup1" )}

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Mumble, mumble.  Is there a way to get ftp->dir to give me everything the first time?

Many thanks,
-T


This is what I have been using:
print "/$BkRoot/backup1 = \n";
my @TestArray = @{$ftp->dir ( "/$BkRoot/backup1/.*" )};
push ( @TestArray, @{$ftp->dir ( "/$BkRoot/backup1" )});
for ( @TestArray ) { print "   $_\n"; }

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In reply to Need Net::FTP::dir help by Todd Chester

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