I recently needed to download a couple hundred jpegs from a server that were all numbered consecutively (i.e. 456.jpg, 457.jpg). Thinking I was pretty clever, I Wrote a script using the Net::Ftp module to get files 384-503, and 505-650. The Code is right here: 
use Net::FTP;
my $file;
$ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.xoom.com", Debug => 0);
$ftp->login("username",'password');
print "logged in\n";
$ftp->cwd("/img");
for($file = 384; $file<651 ; $file++) {
    if($file != 504) {
        $ftp->get("$file.jpg");
        print "got $file.jpg\n";
    }
}
$ftp->quit;

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I got all of the files, but when I tried to open them, they were just bands of colors instead of the pictures that I wanted. If anyone has any ideas/solutions, I'd like to know where I went wrong.
- p u n k k i d

In reply to Using Net::Ftp by elusion

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