That's no different than the original s/^(.+ )(.+?)$/$2/ because of the greediness of the first .+ ... 
perl -le '$_="-r--r--r-- date user group  blah and stuff.txt"; s/^(.+ 
+)(.+? ?.+?)$/$2/; print '

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And the attempt to fix it with .+? ?.+? to check for an optional space is insufficient .. it will failt for filenames with two or more spaces, and also for filenames with no spaces, it will think the previous column (date or whatever) is part of the filename ...

It might be more robust to use Net::FTP's ls() method instead so you don't have to parse out the other items from the long format that dir() provides. As for excluding directories and links, you could just let them through and have the get fail on those, or maybe combine both ls() and dir() to figure out which are links/directories.

In reply to Re^4: Net::FTP Mget by davidrw
in thread Net::FTP Mget by Anonymous Monk

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