Dave, in looking at the documentation for Net::SCP, it does not appear that it can accept a wildcard. It looks like it has to be the exact name of the file that you wish to retrieve. It might be creating a file with nothing in it. When it retrieves that file, is it really the file, or just a zero byte file?
Tim -----Original Message----- From: Dave Thacker [mailto:dthack...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:31 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Net::SCP is saving a file name with a wild card Hi, I need to pull a file or files down every day that contain a specific string. Here's my code. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Net::SCP; my $scp=' '; open (LOG, ">>/home/wesaysopost/logs/retrieve-wesayso-results.log") or die "Can't open logfile"; LOG-> autoflush(1); print LOG "Starting Retrieval Process"; $scp = Net::SCP->new ( "theserver.wesayso.com", "mylogin"); $scp->cwd("postingscript") or die "Can't change directories"; $scp->get ("acme_posting*") or die "Can't retrieve results"; close LOG; exit; The file I'm retrieving is acme_posting20110415.txt (date changes every day) The file is found, but it's being saved as acme_posting* I'm not specifying a local file name when I get the file, why is SCP saving it under a different name? Thanks in Advance! Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
