Re^4: FTP Grep?

... then describing your requirements as "grep" is misleading.

I wouldn't say so. IMHO, the OP clearly indicated that s/he wanted to grep the fileNAMES.

There lies some irony that for filtering the filenames, grep is likely be used.

you would use the FTP command mget monk*, but Net::FTP doesn't seem to support that

It halfway does. You have the member function cmd which, as I understand, can be used to issue any FTP command, and you can use supported to see whether a particular command is supported by the FTP server.

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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Re^5: FTP Grep? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 06, 2009 at 09:29 UTC
There lies some irony that for filtering the filenames, grep is likely be used. You're right--if the "grep" in question is grep, and not grep. The real irony here is that I, an avowed 'doesn't do nix' man, ass*umed the latter rather than the former, when I read the title! Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. RIP PCW	[reply]

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Re^5: FTP Grep?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 06, 2009 at 09:29 UTC

There lies some irony that for filtering the filenames, grep is likely be used.

You're right--if the "grep" in question is grep, and not grep.

The real irony here is that I, an avowed 'doesn't do *nix' man, assumed the latter rather than the former, when I read the title!

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

RIP PCW

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