NAME

Net::FTP::Find - Traverse a directory tree through Net::FTP

SYNOPSIS

use Net::FTP::Find;

my $ftp = Net::FTP::Find->new('localhost');
$ftp->login('user', 'pass');

$ftp->find(sub { ... }, '/');

$ftp->finddepth(sub { ... }, '/');

or

use Net::FTP;
use Net::FTP::Find::Mixin;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new('localhost');
$ftp->login('user', 'pass');

$ftp->find(sub { ... }, '/');

$ftp->finddepth(sub { ... }, '/');

DESCRIPTION

These are functions for searching through directory trees doing work on each file found similar to the File::Find. Net::FTP::Find provides two functions, "find" and "finddepth". They work similarly but have subtle differences.

FUNCTIONS

find

$ftp->find(\&wanted,  @directories);
$ftp->find(\%options, @directories);

finddepth

$ftp->finddepth(\&wanted,  @directories);
$ftp->finddepth(\%options, @directories);

%options

The first argument to find() is either a code reference to your &wanted function, or a hash reference describing the operations to be performed for each file. The code reference is described in "The wanted function" below.

Here are the possible keys for the hash:

wanted

The value should be a code reference. This code reference is described in "The wanted function" below. The &wanted subroutine is mandatory.

bydepth

Reports the name of a directory only AFTER all its entries have been reported. Entry point finddepth() is a shortcut for specifying { bydepth => 1 } in the first argument of find().

no_chdir

Does not cwd() to each directory as it recurses. The wanted() function will need to be aware of this, of course. In this case, $_ will be the same as $Net::FTP::Find::name.

max_depth

The directories that are deeper than this value is traversed.

min_depth

The directories that are shallower than this value is traversed.

The wanted function

The wanted() function does whatever verifications you want on each file and directory. Note that despite its name, the wanted() function is a generic callback function, and does not tell Net::FTP::Find if a file is "wanted" or not. In fact, its return value is ignored.

The wanted function takes no arguments but rather does its work through a collection of variables.

$Net::FTP::Find::dir is the current directory name,

$_ is the current filename within that directory

$Net::FTP::Find::name is the complete pathname to the file.

The above variables have all been localized and may be changed without effecting data outside of the wanted function.

For example, when examining the file /some/path/foo.ext you will have:

$Net::FTP::Find::dir  = /some/path/
$_                    = foo.ext
$Net::FTP::Find::name = /some/path/foo.ext

You are cwd()'d to $Net::FTP::Find::dir when the function is called, unless no_chdir was specified. Note that when changing to directories is in effect the root directory (/) is a somewhat special case inasmuch as the concatenation of $Net::FTP::Find::dir, '/' and $_ is not literally equal to $Net::FTP::Find::name. The table below summarizes all variants:

             $Net::FTP::Find::name  $Net::FTP::Find::dir  $_
default      /                      /                     .
no_chdir=>0  /etc                   /                     etc
             /etc/x                 /etc                  x

no_chdir=>1  /                      /                     /
             /etc                   /                     /etc
             /etc/x                 /etc                  /etc/x

AUTHOR

Taku Amano <taku@toi-planning.net>

A mostly parts of the document are from File::Find.

SEE ALSO

File::Find Net::FTP::Find::Mixin

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.