Dear Monks, I am a humble seeker of your wisdom.

I'm trying to send some information from one machine to another using ftp, in a BigBrother setting. Now, I really don't have a local file. I guess I could write the information I wan't to send to a local file, upload it and then delete the local file, but that seems unnecessary to me.

I would like to do something like: 

use Net::FTP;

$ftp = Net::FTP->new("myhost", Debug => 0);
$ftp->login("user","pwd");
$ftp->cwd("/just/a/directory");
$ftp->put( <SESAME> ,"ftptest");
print SESAME "This is a test.\n";
$ftp->quit;
but that doesn't work for obvious reasons. Any suggestion what I should do? In the man-page it says that the first argument to put() can be a file handle, but how do I use it?

Kind and humble regards,
fsn

In reply to ftp put without a local file by fsn

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