Hello monks!
I want to retrieve a list of files that have the extension .txt from an FTP server. My script so far is
: 
use Net::FTP;

$ftp = Net::FTP->new("SERVER_NAME", Debug => 0) or die "Cannot connect
+ to the server: $@";

$ftp->login("anonymous",'-anonymous@') or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->m
+essage;
print "Succesfully connencted to the server...\n";

$ftp->cwd("/downloads/pub") or die "Cannot change working directory ",
+ $ftp->message;
    
$ftp->get("*.txt") or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;
$ftp->quit;

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Apparently, it doesn't work if you try to do a unix-like fetch, using *.txt. My problem is that I don't know all the names of the text files, so I must use some with a wild-character use. Any other suggestions?

In reply to How to fetch all files with a given name from an FTP server by Anonymous Monk

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