Hello monks and Happy Easter to everyone!
I want to use Perl to download some files from an ftp site, namely ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria
In particular, I want to be able to download all directories in this site (if you visit the link, you will see that there are numerous directories under the one I have written above), and, from each directory, I need only the files that have the extension .faa in them.
For example, I need to have the directory ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria/Acidovorax_JS42 with 3 files in it, that is NC_008765.faa , NC_008766.faa and NC_008782.faa, because there are 3 files with the extension .faa in that directory.
I know nothing about Perl and the www, so I thought I ask here. What I only know to do is download the entire ftp site in my hd (using wget -b tp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria and then start erasing the unecessary files (using find . -name "*.xxx" |xargs rm where xxx is every file extension apart from .faa that I want to keep...
As you can understand, this is very time (and hard-disk) consuming, so I thought I ask for advice here.
Thank you in advance!

In reply to Perl and ftp sites - recursive downloads by Anonymous Monk

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