What does the documentation say? Given nothing specifically says it returns directory sizes, if you're brave you might try the quot command.
I believe this is something you get to do yourself. Either the list(DIR) or the dir command will get you the data you require. I've used the latter but not the former.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NASB)
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"quot (CMD ,ARGS)" is not clear if is a drop to a shell or an ftp command. It would be cool if I could do a "rm -rf xxx". I can with ftp on linux "! rm -rf /home/xxxx/ftp/MyDocsBackup/backup1"
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I have been using the ls command, which is the same as the dir command. I do not remember it giving me any additional data
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The doc's for Net::FTP say that ftp ls and ftp dir are not the same. This is not the normal command line.
From Net::FTP:
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ls ( DIR )
Get a directory listing of DIR , or the current directory.
In an array context, returns a list of lines returned from the server. In a scalar context, returns a reference to a list.
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dir ( DIR )
Get a directory listing of DIR , or the current directory in long format.
In an array context, returns a list of lines returned from the server. In a scalar context, returns a reference to a list.
Also note that du stats are not the same as ls stats. "du" is the size actually used on the disk. That will be at least equal to but, probably greater than the actual size of the file. That is because the file system writes to the disk in a quantum size of bytes, often 4096 bytes. Could be that the last byte of the file takes up one byte of this 4096 bytes. Other minimum "block" sizes to write to the disk are possible and there are a variety of names for what the file system calls this "minimum file system block size" on the disk.
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Much of the information passed back by FTP is dependent on the server implementation (and config).
There is no standard what should be a directory listing (and in which oder and which units).
If a server doesn't send file sizes back, you won't get them, and there's nothing Net::FTP (or any other module) could do about it. Period.
Of course, first you should check (with an interactive client), what you do get back from the server. That might be interesting for your other problem, too.
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I've used Firefox's Fire FTP plug-in and secure log-in variants to big success so far. If Firefox can get what I need, then I'm confident that Perl can do the same.
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