Perl

Delete FTP Directory Tree

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Delete an entire directory tree on an FTP server. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $ftp = Chilkat2::Ftp2->new;

$ftp->Hostname('ftp.yourftpserver.com');
$ftp->Username('****');
$ftp->Password('****');

# Connect and login to the FTP server.
my $success = $ftp->Connect();
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Set the current remote directory to the root of
# the tree to be deleted
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir('/something');
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Delete the entire tree.  All sub-directories and files are deleted.
$success = $ftp->DeleteTree();
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# The /something directory still exists.  To delete it,
# we move up one directory level and then delete it.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir('..');
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $ftp->RemoveRemoteDir('something');
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();