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hi all,
any net::ftp commands to get latest file from the directory.

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2011/7/9 Narasimha Madineedi <simha051 [at] gmail.com>:
> hi all,
> any net::ftp commands to get latest file from the directory.
>

won't "ls -ltr" sort the files by date?

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hii i tried ls -ltr but it doesnt work....can u suggest me someother command

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Feng He <shorttag [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/7/9 Narasimha Madineedi <simha051 [at] gmail.com>:
> > hi all,
> > any net::ftp commands to get latest file from the directory.
> >
>
> won't "ls -ltr" sort the files by date?
>



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Narasimha Madineedi

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On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 05:24:01PM +0530, Narasimha Madineedi wrote:
> hi all,
> any net::ftp commands to get latest file from the directory.
>

You have the hard work yourself:
1. Either use the $ftp->dir() function to get the timestamps, parse it
and find out the latest. A bit unreliable.
2. Better is to use $ftp->ls() to get the list of files, and for each
file, use $ftp->mdtm() to get the modification time, and pick the
latest. mdtm() doesn't work with directories apparently in my ftp
server, so it is useful to skip entries when it doesn't return a
value.

- Sandip


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