Perl

Get a Raw Text Directory Listing (LIST)

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.GetTextDirListing method, which sends a legacy LIST request and returns the server's raw textual listing. The only argument is appended literally as a server-side listing argument; an empty string lists the current remote directory.

Background: This returns exactly what the server's LIST command produces — usually a Unix ls -l-style block, but the format is server-defined and not standardized. That makes it handy for display or debugging, but fragile to parse; prefer GetXmlDirListing or the index-based accessors when you need structured data. Since the argument is appended literally to LIST, it can carry server-specific options as well as a wildcard.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the Ftp2.GetTextDirListing method, which sends a legacy LIST request and returns
#  the server's raw textual listing.  The only argument is appended literally as a server-side
#  listing argument; an empty string lists the current remote directory.

$ftp = chilkat::CkFtp2->new();

$ftp->put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->put_Username("myFtpLogin");

#  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
#  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
$ftp->put_Password("myPassword");

$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir("public_html");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Get the raw listing text.  The format is server-defined (often Unix "ls -l" style).
$listing = $ftp->getTextDirListing("");
if ($ftp->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print $listing . "\r\n";

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}