Net::FTP::Recursive rget

daytripper1021 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there.

I'm a newbie to perl and currently trying to convert an existing shell-script I made to perl.

I'm having problems converting the ftp part. The shell-script version is this:

YDAY=`TZ=TAIST+16 date '+%Y%m%d'`

/usr/bin/ftp -n 192.168.180.27 << EOF

user nped nped

bin

lcd /tmp/npdd/output

prompt

mget GOLD_SCH$YDAY.Z

EOF

I tried the Net::FTP::Recursive module but I'm having trouble with the rget command to use wildcards as above.

Here's what I tried doing (but failed, of course):

use Net::FTP::Recursive;

$ftp = Net::FTP::Recursive->new("192.168.118.58", Debug => 0);

$ftp->login("rbi",'rbi');

$ftp->cwd("/data/rbi/RBIPublic/combination/bak");

$ftp->rget( ParseSub => \&yoursub );

# $ftp->rget("evcREC$YDAY.*,/c0re/goldsch/input");

$ftp->quit;

Comment on Net::FTP::Recursive rget

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Re: Net::FTP::Recursive rget by jethro (Monsignor) on Aug 12, 2008 at 10:59 UTC
I think your rget doesn't need a ParseSub parameter, that is an optional parameter to provide your own directory parse function. As far as I can see, Net::FTP::Recursive provides no method to only get some files of a directory, it just slurps everything that is in and under the current directory. If you don't mind getting everything from that directory instead of only the ones you want, you just call rget without parameter. Otherwise you either have to read the current directory yourself and change to the directories you want or use a different module	[reply]
Re: Net::FTP::Recursive rget by dHarry (Abbot) on Aug 12, 2008 at 08:20 UTC
Have you tried running it with `Debug => 1` ? And what is your ParseSub doing?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Net::FTP::Recursive rget by graq (Curate) on Aug 12, 2008 at 10:58 UTC
It is difficult to tell from your code whether this is an issue or not, but there is a difference between `mget` (Multiple GET) and `rget` (Recursively GET). The former retrieves files in a directory matching a pattern, the latter retrieves all files in a folder and it's sub folders. -=( Graq )=-	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Net::FTP::Recursive rget by apl (Monsignor) on Aug 12, 2008 at 10:39 UTC
Could you show us the code to yoursub?	[reply]