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Re: Using Net::FTP need to get latest file from the directory ?

by gube (Parson)
on Mar 11, 2009 at 03:10 UTC ( [id://749770]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Using Net::FTP need to get latest file from the directory ?

Thanks for your reply. Yes i want the latest modification file. I meant ls -rt in linux will show the first file as latest file i need the same to be collected from FTP.

Gubs

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Re^2: Using Net::FTP need to get latest file from the directory ?
by ig (Vicar) on Mar 11, 2009 at 08:49 UTC

    You can use the ls or dir method to get a list of the files in the directory, then use the mdtm method on each file to get its modification time and select the file with the latest modifiction time.

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