From perldoc -f Net::FTP:

pwd ()
           Returns the full pathname of the current directory.

Surely you've searched the docs? That entry is just a little bit down from the entry on cwd

I tried pwd(). It is returning '/'. my script is as follows.

use Net::FTP;

    $ftp = Net::FTP->new("Ram", Debug => 0)
      or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";

    $ftp->login("anonymous",'-anonymous@')
      or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;

$temp = $ftp->pwd();
print "test\n", $temp  ;

    #$ftp->get("test.txt")
    #' or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

    $ftp->quit;
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Thanks & Regards

Nalina

Net::FTP behaves in the same way as your command line ftp. I bet that, if you ftp from command line to the same site, then issue a pwd command, you will get the same thing, the root.

So this is not a problem with Net::FTP module, but rather the server is configured in this way, and that was what you supposed to get. I tried to ftp ftp.sun.com, that was what I got.

However this is not always what you get. When I try to ftp to a UNIX node on your company's network that I have account, I was led to my home directory.

Sorry - no can do via FTP - that would be a security hazard.

What you are getting is the relative path, which is the FTP root, or "/".