After connecting try something like this: 
@remotelist = $ftp->ls("-alR");

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You will have to parse out the contents of the array into something more useful though. I did it like this: 
for my $line(@remotelist)
{
    if($line =~ m/\<DIR\>/){ next; } # item is a directory
    elsif($line =~ m/^\n$/){ next; } # item is a blank line (nix type)
    elsif(length($line) == 0){ next; } # really blank line
    elsif($line =~ m/^\.\\(.*?):$/) # we have changed directories
    {
        $curdir = $1;
        $curdir =~ s/\\/\//g; # change the direction of the slash
        $curdir = $parent . $curdir;
    }
    elsif($line =~ /(\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2})\s+(\d{2}:\d{2}..)\s+(\d+)\s+(.
+*?)$/) # item is a file
    {
        #                           name  date  time  size;
        push @{$listing{$curdir}}, [ $4,   $1,   $2,   $3 ];
    }
    else
    {
        print "---> UNKNOWN:\n" . length($line) . "\n|$line|\n";
    }

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I hope this helps.

In reply to Re: Ftp get directory by ChrisR
in thread Ftp get directory by Vanquish

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