O Most Wise Brethren & Sistern, I am a Perl newbie faced with the following task:

I have a file that lists, on each line, a path and filename of a file to be amended on our intranet server. These are all plain text files.

I want to write a script to do the following:

  1. ftp each file in the list to my working folder
  2. save a backup of each file (with a .bak extension) to my working folder
  3. do a substitution (e.g. s|foo|bar|g) to each file
  4. save each updated file in the working folder
  5. and ftp the updated files back to the server

I'm poring through my O'Reilly books right now, but any suggestions would be most appreciated!

I realize that the order listed above might not be the most optimal, and and open to whatever ideas would work best. The main thing is simply to update these files on the server, while saving backups of them just in case, with the constraint that the script won't be on the same server as the original files.

In reply to FTP and update files from a list by lev36

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