Novice here. I am using an ftp script to get some files from a Unix server. How do I test to see if an item listing is a directory or a file? Here is a snippet of my code where I would need to test the item(given that I have already established a connection to the server and navigated to the correct directory). 
@files = $ftp->ls;

foreach $file1 (@files)
{ 
 if($file1 !~ a directory){skip it};
 
 if($file1 !~ a file)
    { $ftp->get($file1) || die "Can't get files from $dir :@{[ $ftp->m
+essage ]}\n";       
    }
   }
$ftp->close();
}

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