my $path = "Report_".$date.".csv";
net::ftp $ftp->get($path) or die "Cannot get '$path': $!\n";
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thanks apl! But no draw. The output gives me RETR and then the filename, which is correct, But still gives me the error "Bad file descriptor" I even copied and pasted that output and manually retreived the file and it was fine! I even made sure the path was correct ($ftp->pwd()). I suspect that the module may be inputting something else on the cmd line but how can I display that? Perhaps $ftp->message displays this (but not sure how to display it if it does) Can you provide some insight. Regards - perl newbie! :)

Have you tried repeating the sequence of ftp commands interactively? (You can always ls to confirm the existence of the file.)

Perhaps you could do a ftp->dir();, to see if the file shows up in the directory listing?

For that matter, you could manually do a ls -b on the directory in question. Perhaps there's a non-printable character in the name of the file you're interested in.

Hi there,

You say that this code

$ftp->get("Report_$date.csv") or die "Cannot retreive file: $!\n", $ft
+p->message;
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gives this error message:

Cannot retreive file: Bad file descriptor
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As you see, $ftp->message is actually empty, which may indicate that the issue is not with the FTP server, but with something locally. Please post how you create the $ftp object and what FTP commands you issue prior to issuing the get FTP command.

To see what commands Net::FTP sends to the ftp server, you can pass Debug => 1 to Net::FTP->new(). Also consier calling $ftp->get() with 2 arguments, specifying full path to where the file should be stored locally as the second argument. There might be some issues with permissions.

Good luck.