If this is the case you are going to have to connect to the server via something like Net::SSH, uncompress thie files you need from the archive and then transfer them. FTP can't provide that functionality.

Also, in case you don't already know FTP - Security problems may be of interest.

Martin

I modified the code like this but the uncompress part seems to give me problem, Here is the modified code--

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::FTP;
use IO::Uncompress::Unzip qw(unzip $UnzipError) ;
use IO::File ;
    
print "Retrieving file from abc.com...\n";
$loginip='123.456.0.23';
$loginid='nt1234';
$loginpaswd='defgsljf';
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year)=(localtime(time))[0,1,2,3,4,5];
$time_stamp= "_" . (1900+$year) . "_" . ($mon+1) . "_" . ($mday) . "_"
+ . $hour . "_" . $min . "_". $sec;
printf "time stamp = $time_stamp\n";


unless(-d "temp")
{
mkdir("temp");
}
if( -d "temp")
{
chdir("temp");
}

$ftp = Net::FTP->new(($loginip), Debug => 0)
or die "Cannot connect to abc.com: $@ \n";

$ftp->login($loginid,$loginpaswd)
or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;

$source_dir="/abc/nali05/";

$ftp->cwd($source_dir)
or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->message;


$ftp->binary || die "Unable to set mode to binary. ", $ftp->message;

@list=$ftp->ls();
printf "list = \n";
print @list;
foreach $file (@list)
{
unzip "$file" => "$source_dir"' or die "unzip failed: $UnzipError\n";

if($file =~ m/namish*/i)
{
$ftp->get($file) or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;
#rename($file,"${file}_${time_stamp}");
$ftp->delete ($file) or die "rm -rf failed ", $ftp->message;
}
}


$ftp->quit;
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When i use my code without uncompress part it works fine. But i want to uncompress it first and choose files and ftp only those files. When i run the script i get this error--

C:\Perl Script>perl ftp1.pl
Can't locate IO/Uncompress/Unzip.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/li
+b C:/Perl/
site/lib .) at ftp1.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ftp1.pl line 3.
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Thanks NT

Did you install IO::Uncompress::Unzip (respectively IO::Compress)? See Yes, even you can use CPAN, A guide to installing modules for Win32.

namishtiwari:

You can't unzip the file until you download it.

...roboticus