Learning PERL, needing a real-world example to hurl myself upon, I picked a problem I've already resolved using BASH.

What I need: Login to an FTP server. Using a list of directories, move all files in that directory tree to another directory, renaming to standard.

So this

/test1/in/foo.edi
/test1/in/dir/bar.edi

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becomes this

/composite/test1_YYYYMMDDHHSS_foo.edi
/composite/test1_YYYYMMDDHHSS_bar.edi

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I've got the move and rename down. For 'a' directory.

Where I appear to be stuck is getting that sucker to walk the directory tree.

It's executing without error, I just don't see where I've gone wrong, why it's not calling wanted subroutine.

Script 
#!/usr/bin/perl -s
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use Net::FTP::Find;

my($host) = "ftp2.site.com";
my($user) = "redacted";
my($password) = "redacted";
my($ftpdir) = "/test1/in";

my $ftpfind = Net::FTP::Find->new($host) or die "Can't open $host: $@\
+n";
$ftpfind->login($user, $password) or die "Can't log $user in: $ftpfind
+\n";
$ftpfind->cwd($ftpdir) or die "Can't cwd to $ftpdir: $ftpfind\n";

print "this is ftpfind $ftpfind\n"; # sanity check so I know it's doin
+g _something_

$ftpfind->finddepth (\&wanted, "/test1/in");
sub wanted {
 print "hello";
 print $_;
}

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$ ./dirwalkftp.pl
this is ftpfind Net::FTP::Find=GLOB(0x10083ce10)
$

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edited to add shell type and variable $ftpdir. Thanks, dulwar.

In reply to Walking a directory tree with net:FTP:find by bdunbar

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