#! perl -slw use strict; use Time::HiRes qw[ time sleep ]; use Net::FTP; $|=1; sub TIEHANDLE { return bless [ 0 ], $_[0] } sub PRINT{ my $self = shift; if( $self->[ 0 ] ) { my $delay = ( $self->[ 0 ]+1 - time() ); printf "%f\n", $delay; sleep 1+$delay; ## Insert delay } $self->[ 0 ] = time(); } local *GLOB; tie *GLOB, 'main'; my( $site, $dir, $file ) = $ARGV[ 0 ] =~ m[ ^(?:ftp://)? ([^/]+) (/.*?) / ([^/]+$) ]x or die "Couldn't parse url"; my $ftp = Net::FTP->new( $site, Hash => \*GLOB ) or die $@; $ftp->login( 'anonymous', 'anonymous@' ); $ftp->cwd( $dir ) or die $@; $ftp->get( $file ) or die $@;