list files in .zip on FTP ...

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

Is there some way to list a zip files on some FTP site to tell the files dates?

wget can do some things,and unzip can also do some,but is there some Perlish way to get these two to work together,or maybe some library that achieves the goal ?
thanks

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[Kirsle]

use LWP::Simple;
use Archive::Zip;

my $zip = get "ftp://site/zipfile.zip";
# or use Net::FTP if it requires authentication

# save it locally,
# open it with Archive::Zip,
# ???
# profit!

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perl -e '$|=$i=1;print" oo\n<|>\n_|_";x:sleep$|;print"\b",$i++%2?"/":"_";goto x;'

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,Kirsle

All I wanted it is to get thes info WITHOUT downloding the zip first ...Sometimes my zips would be 100 MB or more ...

Long live king Moshiach !

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/seven-laws-of-noah.htm

 

[Kirsle]

Have you seen an FTP client that can do this? I haven't (not even the Windows Explorer built-in FTP client, which logically should be able to open remote zip files, since Windows XP started calling them "compressed folders" that could be opened like normal folders), so I would guess it can't be done without downloading the file. If you have access to, you might have a script run on the remote server that lists all the files into a text file of the same name, and then just download and read the text file.

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perl -e '$|=$i=1;print" oo\n<|>\n_|_";x:sleep$|;print"\b",$i++%2?"/":"_";goto x;'

 

[MoshiachNow]

thanks,

I like your last idea a lot,will give it a try.

Long live king Moshiach !

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