NAME Net::FTP::Find - Traverse a directory tree through Net::FTP SYNOPSIS use Net::FTP::Find; my $ftp = Net::FTP::Find->new('localhost'); $ftp->login('user', 'pass'); $ftp->find(sub { ... }, '/'); $ftp->finddepth(sub { ... }, '/'); or use Net::FTP; use Net::FTP::Find::Mixin; my $ftp = Net::FTP->new('localhost'); $ftp->login('user', 'pass'); $ftp->find(sub { ... }, '/'); $ftp->finddepth(sub { ... }, '/'); DESCRIPTION These are functions for searching through directory trees doing work on each file found similar to the File::Find. Net::FTP::Find provides two functions, "find" and "finddepth". They work similarly but have subtle differences. FUNCTIONS find $ftp->find(\&wanted, @directories); $ftp->find(\%options, @directories); finddepth $ftp->finddepth(\&wanted, @directories); $ftp->finddepth(\%options, @directories); %options The first argument to "find()" is either a code reference to your &wanted function, or a hash reference describing the operations to be performed for each file. The code reference is described in "The wanted function" below. Here are the possible keys for the hash: "wanted" The value should be a code reference. This code reference is described in "The wanted function" below. The &wanted subroutine is mandatory. "bydepth" Reports the name of a directory only AFTER all its entries have been reported. Entry point "finddepth()" is a shortcut for specifying "{ bydepth => 1 }" in the first argument of "find()". "no_chdir" Does not "cwd()" to each directory as it recurses. The "wanted()" function will need to be aware of this, of course. In this case, $_ will be the same as $Net::FTP::Find::name. "max_depth" The directories that are deeper than this value is traversed. "min_depth" The directories that are shallower than this value is traversed. The wanted function The "wanted()" function does whatever verifications you want on each file and directory. Note that despite its name, the "wanted()" function is a generic callback function, and does not tell Net::FTP::Find if a file is "wanted" or not. In fact, its return value is ignored. The wanted function takes no arguments but rather does its work through a collection of variables. $Net::FTP::Find::dir is the current directory name, $_ is the current filename within that directory $Net::FTP::Find::name is the complete pathname to the file. The above variables have all been localized and may be changed without effecting data outside of the wanted function. For example, when examining the file /some/path/foo.ext you will have: $Net::FTP::Find::dir = /some/path/ $_ = foo.ext $Net::FTP::Find::name = /some/path/foo.ext You are cwd()'d to $Net::FTP::Find::dir when the function is called, unless "no_chdir" was specified. Note that when changing to directories is in effect the root directory (/) is a somewhat special case inasmuch as the concatenation of $Net::FTP::Find::dir, '/' and $_ is not literally equal to $Net::FTP::Find::name. The table below summarizes all variants: $Net::FTP::Find::name $Net::FTP::Find::dir $_ default / / . no_chdir=>0 /etc / etc /etc/x /etc x no_chdir=>1 / / / /etc / /etc /etc/x /etc /etc/x AUTHOR Taku Amano A mostly parts of the document are from File::Find. SEE ALSO File::Find Net::FTP::Find::Mixin LICENSE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.