It feels like homework, but it's work work.

Anyway, I figured I would open the list of files and read them into an array. And please don't laugh, but I really am new to this language! I'm sure I'm missing some subtleties in what follows:

open FILE_LIST, "list.txt";
while(<FILE_LIST>) {
 #read each line into the array here -- gotta look up the syntax
}
close FILE_LIST;

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Then, I figured I'd iterate through the array and FTP the files to the working directory, which I don't yet know how to do.

Next, I'd save off the .bak copies, doing something like this:

foreach $filename (@files2change) {
 my $backup = $filename . '.bak';
 rename($filename, $backup)
 open OLD_FILE, $backup;
 open NEW_FILE, ">>$filename;
 while(<OLD_FILE>) {
  print NEW_FILE s/foo/bar/g;
 }
 close OLD_FILE;
 close NEW_FILE;
}

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And finally, FTP the updated files back.

In reply to Re^2: FTP and update files from a list by lev36
in thread FTP and update files from a list by lev36

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