Perl

Download Multiple Files Matching Pattern

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The MGetFiles method can be called to download all files matching a wildcarded filename pattern. 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.example.com');
$ftp->Username('myUsername');
$ftp->Password('myPassword');
$ftp->Port(21);
$ftp->AuthTls(1);

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

# Change to the remote directory where the files are located.
# This step is only necessary if the files are not in the root directory
# of the FTP account.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir('qa');
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Download all files with filenames matching "*.txt";
# The files are downloaded into c:/temp/qa_output
my $numFilesDownloaded = $ftp->MGetFiles('*.txt', 'c:/temp/qa_output');
if ($numFilesDownloaded < 0) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();

print $numFilesDownloaded, " Files Downloaded!\n";