Re: Using NET::FTP with Unkown File Names

No Net::FTP does not support wildcards directly, but Net::FTP has an ls method that you can use to get a list of files on the remote server. Then just loop through this list and download them...

    use Net::FTP;

    $ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0);
    $ftp->login("anonymous",'me@here.there');
    $ftp->cwd("/pub");
    my @l=$ftp->ls();
    foreach(@l){
      $ftp->get($_);
    }
    $ftp->quit;
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be sure to add error checking code to the above for "real live" use

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Re: Re: Using NET::FTP with Unkown File Names by mikeB (Friar) on Jul 07, 2001 at 00:11 UTC
As an additional sanity check, you may want to add something like `if ( $ftp->size($remoteFileName) <> -s $localFileName) { die "file size mismatch\n"; }` [download] after the transfer. We have seen cases where the get() succeeded but the file was not complete.	[reply] [d/l]