> > Hi Guys and Gals , > > I'm new to perl ... Here is my problem .. > > I'm connecting fine to the remote computer and logging in fine .. what I > want to do is a get all files from the remote directory . Here is is a > snippet of the code > > $ftp->cwd($remote_dir) > or die "cannot change working directory ", $ftp->message; > > # show current directory > $ftp->pwd(); > > > @all_files = $ftp->ls(); > > print @all_files; > > > foreach $file(@all_files) { > > $ftp->get($file) > or die "cannot get file", $ftp->message; > } > > > > The problem is that the remote directory has a subdirectory in it so the > array reads it in @all_files = $ftp->ls; so when I go to do a > $ftp->get($file) it reads the subdirectory name into it as well so it > bombs out saying it cannot find file BLAH BLAH ... is there a way to > read the directory without the subdirectory in there .. just the files I > want to get . > > > > Hope this is clear .. > >
You can use the 'dir' method to get a long listing, which should include the permissions string. Then you can step through the list and pull only those files that don't start with a 'd'. This requires more parsing and is less precise but is the only way I know to do it. I thought someone was writing an extension that did this automatically but don't know if it has made its way to CPAN. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>