I am working on a script that goes out to a host and grabs the .lic files for Veritas so we can keep a record of the keys. Any suggestions on how to make this smoother? Seems it should be simpler than this?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Net::FTP;

$LIC_DIR = "/home/user/admin/keys";
@files = grep(/\.lic$/, readdir(LDIR));

$ftp = Net::FTP->new("ip address")                       or die "can't
+ connect: $@\n";
$ftp->login("user", "password")                          or die "could
+n't login\n";
$ftp->cwd("/etc/vx/elm")                                 or die "could
+n't change directory\n";
$ftp->binary();
$ftp->quot("prompt");
foreach $x ( @files ) {

  $x =~ s/.lic/;
  print "Getting file $x\n";
  $ftp->get($x)                                          or die "could
+n't get $x: $@\n";
}
$ftp->quit;                                              # outta here
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