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Cc: Randy Kobes <randy@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>
From: Boysenberry Payne <boysenberry@humaniteque.com>
Subject: Re: Trying to get File and Directory info off of external server
 quickly
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:35:56 -0500
To: mod_perl <modperl@perl.apache.org>

Thank You Everyone,

I think now that I know I can use $ftp->ls( "-lR" ), which I couldn't 
find
anywhere in the Net::FTP docs or other O'Reilly books I have, I can
stick to Net::FTP without is being slow.  What was causing my script
to take so long was the multiple $ftp->cwd( $directory ), $ftp->ls() and
$ftp->dir(  $directory . $file ) calls for each directory in my 
directory loop.

Now I use one cwd and ls("-lR") from my public html area then process
the return array, which is a lot faster.  It would be nice to be able 
to specify
the directory as well as the "-lR" without using cwd( $directory ); does
anyone know how to do it?

Thanks for the tips on making my code more efficient too.

Boysenberry

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On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Randy Kobes wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Boysenberry Payne wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if HEAD would work.
>> Basically, I'm trying to read a directory's files.
>> After I confirm a file exists and doesn't have zero
>> size I check that it has the appropriate extension
>> for the directory then I add the directory address,
>> file name and extension to a table in our database.
>
> Can you get someone on the remote server to do a
>    cd top_level_directory
>    ls -lR > ls-lR  # or find -fls find-ls
>    gzip ls-lR      # or gzip find-ls
> periodically, and then you can grab and parse ls-lR.gz or find-ls.gz?
>
> -- 
> best regards,
> randy kobes
>
>