Question

How can I use Net::FTP to get a file matching a pattern?

Basically what I want to do is:

$ftp->get("test*");

Should match all files starting with test and do a get().

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Try this solution from perlmonks.org. Essentially do a remote ls, filter out what you don’t want with grep, then fetch the files.

$ftp->get($_) for grep /\.txt$/, $ftp->ls;

BTW, this took about 10 seconds to find with Google “net::FTP mget”