Hello monks!
I am new to Perl and I don't know what I can do to solve the following problem:
I want to contact an ftp site (namely:ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria) and download locally all the subfolders in it, but downloading only files with the extension .faa).
For example, I want to download tha folder Bacteria (as I wrote previously) and then, recursively, download all subfolders (like Acidobacteria_bacterium_Ellin345) and only the files with extension .faa (like NC_008009.faa which is inside the Acidobacteria_bacterium_Ellin345 folder). I thought of downloading the whole ftp folder with wget -r command of Linux, but the files are rather large and will take sometime. I believe I must store all the names of the folders in a list and then open each folder and apply wget only to the files with .faa extension. I have no idea how I contact with ftp sites using Perl though...
Any hints would be grately appreciated...

In reply to connecting to ftp sites and download certain files based on file extensions by Anonymous Monk

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