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I am attempting to automate an ftp session in PERL by emulating the user and sending commands to ftp, but I am getting unexpected and unwanted results. Here is a portion code that illustrates the method I am attempting (this was just a shot in the dark):

system("(
echo open server
sleep 1
echo username
sleep 1
echo password
sleep 1
echo ls) | ftp");

The ftp server doesn't appear to be interpretting the commands, and it appears to hang up somewhere around the username/password entry. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Bryan Murdaugh

Use Net::FTP Module from http://search.cpan.org


$ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0);
$ftp->login("name",'pass');
$ftp->cwd("mydir");
$ftp->get("file");
$ftp->quit;


HTH

That was my first impulse, just to get the ftp module and use it, but I was hoping to get around it because this script needs to run on a LOT of machines. However, if there's no down-and-dirty brute force method to do it, I'll have to bite the bullet and install the module on all of the machines.

Thanks for the help!

Bryan