Re: [MacPerl] FTP client? (fwd)

["Jon S. Jaques" <sysadmin@almus.com>]

Hi All,

I had to dredge this message out from a few days
ago... hope I don't back-track too much, but I
have a MacPerl [semi] newbie question.

I have been using MacPerl to write a series of
file i/o utilities for our salespeoples' PowerBook
190 and 540 laptops, which are all pretty slow
(the 190s are 22mhz). My utilities do things like
(initially) copy our entire WWW tree onto the
laptops hdd, rescan the tree to do incremental
updates, Search and replace SSI tags to "rotated
banners," re-rotate the "rotated" banners, or
empty the trash (I added that last just as an
experiment with unlink and rmdir). Also, the file
copying process will automatically skip any file
without an extension, or that has a "dis-allowed"
extension, just in case our esteemed artists
forget (AGAIN!) to remove their 5mb PhotoShop
files! <grin>

Anyhow, the source files, which mirror our actual
Web Server, are housed on a DEC Alpha, running
NT3.51. The absolute slowest part of the whole
scenario is collecting lists of files from across
the network, but I was looking at the routines
below and wondering if this might be any than a
pure Perl solution...

Any thoughts from anybody? I'm currently using
heavy Perl4 stuff, with a recursive decent parser
that has been simplified as much as possible for
efficiency. Also, I now have pretty much given up
on pre-counting the files... I simply copy them as
I recurse the tree, because it takes the 190s 28
minutes just to recurse all 9,000 files and stuff
their names into an array... the arrays, also, get
too big for memory, and I got errors on that, too.

If anybody would like to check out the scripts
that I have written for this, I would appreciate
your comments on it, and would be happy to either
post or send them to you.

--Jon S. Jaques

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>
To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
Cc: Paul DuBois <paul@snake.net>;
mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch <mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MacPerl] FTP client? (fwd)


>At 18.09 12/3/97, Terje Bless wrote:
>>Paul DuBois wrote:
>>>
>>>>%find . -name "*" -print > dir.out
>>>
>>>Actually it won't generate full pathnames,
it'll generate
>>>pathnames relative to the current directory.
>>
>>Now we`re *really* getting far afield here. :-(
>>So, to get (marginally ;D) back on topic, how
about using File::Find
>>instead? :-)
>
>That's what I use with Mac::Apps::Anarchie.
Works great (though you would
>have to do more to create non-existing
directories).  Something like this:
>
>#!perl -w
>use Mac::Apps::Anarchie;
>use File::Find;
>
>$newdir      =
"PowerPudgeIII:Programming:Pudge.Net Upload";
>$uploaddir   = '/web/ns-home/client/pudge';
>$ftp         = Mac::Apps::Anarchie->new;
>$ftp->switchapp(1);
>$ftp->host('pudge.net');
>$ftp->user($user);
>$ftp->pass($pass);
>find(\&wanted,$newdir);
>
>sub wanted {
>    $lfile = $File::Find::name;
>    if (! -d $lfile) {
>        ($rfile = $lfile) =~
s/$newdir/$uploaddir/;
>        $rfile =~ s|:|/|g;
>        $ftp->store($lfile,$rfile,0);
>    }
>}
>
>--
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