Automate FTP process with PERL

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October 20th, 2000, 10:14 PM

Helicon

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Hello everyone,

I'm currently under a project that requires me to write a program in Perl so that I can connect to the client's ftp server, grab the
file, then close the connection.

Now that I know this is doable in Perl, but is there a Perl Module already out there support these functions or would I have to write
my own code to catch the ftp processes.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Rick

October 21st, 2000, 12:29 AM

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The LWP module has an ftp part to it (and LWP is part of the standard distribution of perl).

October 21st, 2000, 12:59 AM

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>>The LWP module has an ftp part to it

He actually needs Net::FTP from the libnet packages -> http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Net/libnet-1.0703.tar.gz

October 21st, 2000, 11:52 AM

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Thanks for the help,

Actually, I figured out this thing myself by digging through the search results off Yahoo last night, heh.

freebsd's right, using NET::FTP is more than enough.

Rick

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