use Net::FTP::Common;
my $common_cfg = { Host => 'ftp.servername.com', 
                User => 'username',
                Pass => 'password',
                RemoteDir  => '/files'
                };    

my $ftp = Net::FTP::Common->new($common_cfg, Debug => 0);
$ftp->get("somefile.txt");
$ftp->quit;
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Provide problems, and we (try to) provide solutions, that's how perlmonks works. If you just told us your problems with Net::FTP at your first post, everyone had benefits out of it: you would have had the solution, and others would not have wasted their time trying to guess what the problem was and how to solve it

Update: By the way, when you are going to use objects in Perl it's always better to check that you really have one before trying to use it. I mean:

use Net::FTP;

# this is wrong, because you cwd without checking
# if $ftp is really an object or it is undef
# (new() failed)
$ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0) ;
$ftp->cwd("/pub") ;

# This is right instead, and it comes straight from
# Net::FTP's documentation
# See how every method call is checked for success
$ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0)
  or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";
 
$ftp->login("anonymous",'-anonymous@')
  or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;
 
$ftp->cwd("/pub")
  or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->message;
 
$ftp->get("that.file")
  or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;
 
$ftp->quit;
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Ciao
--bronto

---

The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
--John M. Dlugosz

I had tried that too. I gives me an error message: Cannot login Login incorrect.
I know the userid and password are correct....I've tested them directly. Just one doubt, the password contains some back slashes and $ sign. Can that be a problem? But, I am enclosing the password in quotes, so that should not be problem....??? My code is:

use Net::FTP;
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.server.com", Debug => 0) or die "Cannot c
+onnect to some.host.name: $@";
my $username = 'username';
my $password = 'pa\ss\wor$d$';
$ftp->login($username,$password) or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message
+;

$ftp->cwd("/files") or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->m
+essage;

$ftp->ls("/files") or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->quit;
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The problem is that it is not logging in correctly. I would suggest that you use Net::FTP directly whereby you can get the error messages directly:

  use strict;
  use Net::FTP;

  my $client = Net::FTP->new('ftp.servername.com', Debug => 1)
                or die "Cannot connect : $@\n";

  $client->cwd('/files') or die $client->message();
  $client->get('somefile.txt') or die $client->message();
  $client->quit()
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/J\

I have tried that too. I gives me an error message:
Cannot login Login incorrect.
I know the userid and password are correct....I've tested them directly. Just one doubt, the password contains some back slashes and $ sign. Can that be a problem? But, I am enclosing the password in quotes, so that should not be problem....???
My code is:

use Net::FTP;
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.server.com", Debug => 0) or die "Cannot c
+onnect to some.host.name: $@";
my $username = 'username';
my $password = 'pa\ss\wor$d$';
$ftp->login($username,$password) or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message
+;

$ftp->cwd("/files") or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->m
+essage;

$ftp->ls("/files") or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->quit;
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