in reply to Re: Perl sftp behavior when there are no files in the share
in thread Perl sftp behavior when there are no files in the share

Thank you sir Robotics

Even though it solves my problem mind you that I have a print statements just after when the sub "get_LOGS" is called. 

get_LOGS("172.25.70.221","abc","abc123","/x01/INT/abc/vim",$GETL);
        print "File \"$GETL\" downloaded to ==>          \"$LOGS_LOCAL
+_PATH$TODAY\"\n\n";

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so the script return the following output

Connecting to the sftp share! Please wait....! OK. On the share! Downloading the file "mmm"...................!

File does not seem to be present on the remote share. Please re-request..!!! Couldn't stat remote file: No such fileFile "mmm" downloaded to ==> "/x02/abc/abcd/20130321"

Dont I need condition in my "get_LOGS" perhaps after the following line? Could you please try to write that for me?

$sftp->get($REM_FILE) or print "File does not seem to be present on the remote share. Please re-request..!!!\n" . $sftp->error\n;

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Re^3: Perl sftp behavior when there are no files in the share
by soonix (Chancellor) on Mar 21, 2013 at 22:03 UTC
    You should print your confirmation message from within get_LOGS, like this: 
    if $sftp->get($REM_FILE)
    print "file '$REM_FILE' downloaded\n"
else
    print "File does not seem to be present on the remote share. Pleas
+e re-request..!!!\n" . $sftp->error\n;

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[d/l]

      oh looks lke that's what I wanted sir. How come I haven't seen it? You wouldn't believe the time I wasted on this. Thank you very much sir. I will confirm once I try it out probably in another couple of hours.

      /Bindo

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      Mr Soonix you are a life saver. It indeed did the trick :) thank you very much. And thanks all whoever have been trying to help.

      I have one last question pertaining to this thread though. Could someone help me understand how to display the progress when a download is in place. I dont want to install another cspan module to reach this. IF I could just get the progress shown in the screen when you download a file manually is more than sufficient. I think what im asking here is how to print the STDOUT to the screen.Please try to help

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        The docs for Net::SFTP::Foreign indicates that the get method accepts a callback.
        alternatively, on the call to Net::SFTP::Foreign->new you can set a file handle for stderr.
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