Hi !

The simplest method would be to use the cwd method to change the current directory to the one you want to do an ls in.

BTW: Answers here are generally posted here as a reply node, so that others can see if a question was answered already, correct answers or learn from them.

Update: Here is some code that might help you: 
use strict;
use Net::FTP;

my $remote_host     = "*****************";
my $remote_user     = "*******";
my $remote_password = "*******";
my $remote_dir      = "/tmp";

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($remote_host) or die "error initiating ftp: $!
+\n";

$ftp->login($remote_user,$remote_password) or die "couldn't login: $!\
+n";

# force binary transmission of files, generally a good idea
$ftp->binary();

my @files = $ftp->ls($remote_dir);
print join "\n",@files;

print "\n","="x80,"\n";

# now change current working directory and do ls there
$ftp->cwd($remote_dir);
my @files = $ftp->ls();
print join "\n",@files;

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---- amphiplex

In reply to Re: ftp files from Unix m/c by amphiplex
in thread ftp files from Unix m/c by Anonymous Monk

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