Dear Monks, I found this code snippet on this site today and I was wondering how I can capture what the FTP ouputs on the screen. It prints it all the output to the screen, but I can't store it in an array, because I am printing to the filehandle and not reading from it. 
if ($var eq "Y") {
        open(FTP,'| ftp -i -v -n ')
        or die "Couldn't run FTP: $!\n";
        my $ofh = select(FTP); $|=1; select($ofh);
        print FTP "open $FTP_HOST\n";
        print FTP "quote USER $FTP_USER\n";
        print FTP "quote PASS $FTP_PASS\n";
        print FTP "cd $FTP_DIR\n";
        print FTP "bin\n";
        print FTP "get $FTP_FILE\n";
        print FTP "bye\n";

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Thanks

In reply to Capturing FTP output by wishartz

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