Revered Monks,
I am a newcomer to Perl and have been tasked with the job of developing a script that will process all files in a directory located on a remote server. I have succeeded in writing a script that will process the contents of a local directory but now I need to add code so it will do the same thing for a remote directory. I was looking at File::Remote (found it in CPAN), but it appears that this will not let me open a remote directory and process every file in it. It seems to be limited to working with a remote file and not a directory. I need to do a remote equivalent of opendir, readdir and closedir; for each member in the directory list, I need to do the usual open, read and close. Can this be done entirely from within Perl or will I need to FTP the directory contents to a local folder from which I can then run my Perl script? Your input is greatly appreciated.