Hi,
What I want to do is this: Copy a couple of folders, which roughly have around 400 files in many diff. directories/sub-directories from a server machine, using ftp (in Windows) to many client machines.
Since I do not know the paths of these files, and since they may change every, say, week, I zip them using Winzip so that I can ftp only the zip file, and unzip them in each of the clients.
I have an ftp script which are placed in each of the client and does the process (using ftp -s).

Now, I want to automate the entire process. The problem is, once I have the Winzip file, and I have them ftp'd to each of the clients, how do I unzip them automatically? I know this is an entirely "winzip" related question, but is there any such alternative in perl? Something like bundle all files/folders to a zip/archive file in the source, and unzip/explode it in the destination.
Many Thanks!

In reply to FTP folders by Anonymous Monk

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