Using NET::FTP to download Files

dReKurCe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings Monks:

I am interested inleading up to a reply to How do I make Net::FTP use wildcards and I have put together this script so far. It is meant to backup a diectory of images to a local file.

The following code produces the following output:

#! /usr/bin/perl

#FTP to2600@darkphiber.ca  for seCr33n CaPtu7e fetch
#
#Authored:/home/japh
#% whoami
#dReKurCe
#
#Tue May 31 19:17:51 EDT 2005
#
#
#
use Net::FTP;

$hostname='darkphiber.ca';
$username='to2600@darkphiber.ca';
$hack_the_planet='h4x0r5';

#update by OM Tue May 31 17:15:45 EDT 2005

$home='/home/neutrin0/2600';
$filename="neutrin0.to2600.3105a.jpg";

# open conection to ftp.darkphiber.ca

$ftp=Net::FTP->new($hostname);
$ftp->login($username,$hack_the_planet);

print "Current Listing of $username";
 @dirlisting=$ftp->ls(),"\n";

atomize(@dirlisting);
#retrieve $filename and exit
#not sure how the output of atomize should be utilized here

$ftp->get($filename);
$ftp->quit;

sub atomize{
for $screencapture(@philes){print "output of ftp listing->$screencaptu
+re\n"}
}
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output of ftp listing->neutrin0.to2600.3105a.png
output of ftp listing->neutrin0.to2600.3105b.png
output of ftp listing->neutrin0.to2600.3105c.png
output of ftp listing->neutrin0.to2600.3105d.png

How can i utilize the output of the method or (err sub routine) in atomize to get the image to my harddrive?

Thanks Monks
dReKurCe

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Re: Using NET::FTP to download Files by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Jun 01, 2005 at 02:54 UTC
Once you get the names of the files (which you put in @dirlisting), you need to go through each of those file and get() it. You already have the `$ftp->get()` line in there, although it's not doing anything. `my @dirlisting=$ftp->ls(); foreach my $file ( @dirlisting ) { $ftp->get( $file ) or warn "..."; }` [download] -- brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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