As others have suggested, it is worth spending a moment checking whether you already have Net::FTP. You don't mention what OS you're on but if it's Windows and you've got ActiveState Perl installed, then Net::FTP comes as standard, so you're covered.

Having said that, it is possible to "script" the standard 'ftp' program on both Windows and Unix (thereby not worrying about sockets or RFCs). The Windows binary (ftp.exe) takes a -s command line option which specifies a file containing FTP commands. In Unix you can pipe commands in from stdin: 

ftp -inv <<EOF
open myhost
user myuser mypassword
cd somedir
get afile
quit
EOF

[download]

That's actually a shell script solution but you could do something very similar in perl.

Hope that helps - apologies if I've missed the point.

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In reply to Re: ftp scripts by muntfish
in thread ftp scripts by darrengan

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