[ABE.pm] Re: automating FTP in Perl

[Faber Fedor]

On 09/12/04 19:29 -0500, Jim Eshleman wrote:
> >>I saw Net::FTP::Common on CPAN but I didn't see just Net::FTP.  Does it
> >>have a different package name?
> >
> >
> >http://search.cpan.org/dist/libnet/
> 
>   CPAN can be your friend...sometimes:
> 
> $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
> 
> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601)
> ReadLine support enabled
> 
> cpan> m /ftp/
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> Going to read /usr/local/cpan/Metadata
>   Database was generated on Thu, 09 Dec 2004 04:51:03 GMT
> [...]
> Module          Net::FTP        (G/GB/GBARR/libnet-1.19.tar.gz)
> [...]
> 70 items found

Oh!  THAT'S how you do that!  Thanks!

(Maybe we need a "how to do useful things other than install modules
with CPAN" lecture at one of the meetings.)

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Faber                     

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