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It's the formatting part that I have a question on. Is there an existing script/tool that will take the directory listing and format it for me (creating links for each file/directory, etc.), or do I need to do that manually? (I know, I know, doing it manually isn't that big a deal for you experienced guys out there, but when you're just starting out, just about anything can be intimidating...) :)

Thanks again.

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(tye)Re: How to generate an HTML page from an FTP directory listing?
by tye (Sage) on Mar 28, 2001 at 23:50 UTC

    Wouldn't something as simple as: 

    print <<"END"
<a href="ftp://server/path/$file">$file</a><br>
END

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    work?

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re: Re: Re: How to generate an HTML page from an FTP directory listing?
by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 28, 2001 at 22:16 UTC
    Well, there's probably nothing "out of the box" that does exactly what you want (yet, because I've noted this problem for a future column idea), but take a look at my past columns for ideas on how to generate links based on names, and how to respond to those links when selected.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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