Re: Net::FTP and filenames with spaces

[jlongino]

You didn't say what version of libnet you're using. My versions:

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 regist
+ered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Binary build 628 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. http://www.ActiveS
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libnet            [1.07.03] Collection of Network protocol modules

The following program works for me:

use strict;
use Net::FTP;
my $host = 'mysite.net';
my $login = 'mylogin';
my $passwd = 'mypasswd';

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($host);
my $RC = $ftp->login($login, $passwd);
if (not $RC) {
   print "\n\nFTP Login to Remote Host: '$host' failed!\n\n";
   print "No files updated from Remote host: '$host'!\n\n";
   exit;
}

### Delete local copy of remote host ftp files
my $infile = "test" . ' ' . "file";

### also the following works too
# my $infile = "test file";
if (-e $infile) {
   unlink $infile;
}

### Make new local copy of remote host ftp files
$RC = $ftp->get($infile);
if (not $RC) {
   print "\n\nget command for remote file: '$infile' failed!\n";
   print "No files updated from Remote host: '$host'.\n\n";
   exit;
}

$ftp->quit;
print "Finished!";

I know you said that you just want to get it working, but you should really consider basic error/return code checking as I've done above. Maybe there are additional problems.

--Jim

[amelinda]

Welp, I had just installed libnet 1.0901, perl 5.002 (yes, I know it's out of date... no upgrade on it currently possible). This is on a MacOS X machine, fwiw.

I also forgot to mention that I had cut out the error checking I had been doing, for the sake of posting a smaller amount of code. I am doing error checking. Thanks for mentioning it tho.

[jlongino]

After seeing your libnet version (1.0901) I rechecked ActiveState and found that the same (newer than mine) version was available. Thanks, I at least like to keep the modules up-to-date too! I probably should check the rest of my modules for updates too.

--Jim