> > > > Johnson, Shaunn wrote:
> > > > > Howdy:
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm looking for information that will let me
> > > > > open an ftp connection and grep / search
> > > > > for files and then FTP them back to me.
> > > >
> > > > What do you mean "grep/search" for files? If you want to search
> > > > for particular file *names*, Net::FTP can return a list
> of files
> > > > and directories you can examine.
> > >
> > > True, but it is an inadequately documented feature of the
> module.
> > > The pod indicates only an optional DIR parameter for the ls
> > > function:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > But the following:
> > >
> > > my @files = $ftp->ls("*.jpg");
> >
> > Since there is noe directory '*.jpg' it just does the ls on the cwd.
>
> Yeppers.
>
> > So DIR is a directory, /images for instance
>
> Nope. The directory being queried contains 50-100 files, of
> all types.
No no, /images was an example of what you might want to put there instead of trying
regexes.
For /home/ftpuser/public_html/images would be
$ftp->ls("/public_html/images");
>
> >
> > It looks like you are trying to ls jpg files but this isn't
> grep and
> > the regex isn't even right, it looks more like a winders type thing.
>
> The directory is on a Linux web-server.
> The OP was concerned with fileglobbing through the Net::FTP
> ls function, not grep.
But the subject says grep? :)
So basically: you can ls a directory for list of files and you
can then grep that array of filenames in your script but to actually
grep()the contents of the files listed you'd have to:
Ftp them to yout local file system or at least inside your script or
you could use Telnet or ssh and run cat/grep commands on the file
contents. But with FTP there is no way to look at the contents of
the file without transfering the file to your script first.
Maybe I could add a grep function to my Net::FTP helper functions in a module I may
Do if I ever get time!
>
> Dan, it works.
>
> Joseph
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