Net::FTP's documentation says:
Get REMOTE_FILE from the server and store locally. LOCAL_FILE may be a filename or a filehandle. If not specified, the file will be stored in the current directory with the same leafname as the remote file

To skip the local file you can provide a filehandle that writes to a scalar instead, like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::FTP;
my $home="localhost";
my $username="user";
my $password="password";
my $filename='file.txt';

my $file_data;

# $newfile uses $file_data as the backend storage, and is opened read/
+write.
open my $newfile, '+>', \$file_data;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("$home")   or die "Can't connect: $@\n";
$ftp->login($username, $password)  or die "Couldn't login\n";
$ftp->get($filename, $newfile)     or die "Couldn't get $filename\n";

print $file_data;

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In reply to Re: net::ftp - reading a file by imp
in thread net::ftp - reading a file by Anonymous Monk

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