Thank you very much again sir. Mr soonix beleive it or not Im a beginner in the world of perl. I too saw the context callback and I couldnt understand a thing. In fact net:sftp foreign is the firs ever cspan module I used in my scripting. Could you please be good enough to modify my code without complicating it too much (cos im a beginner :) so that I could grasp the idea of it? Please sir.

This is untested, because I haven't yet figured out how to use cpan with the perl interpreter on my smartphone :-)

First you need the callback routine, like this:

sub show_progress {
        my($sftp, $data, $offset, $size) = @_;
        print "downloaded $offset of $size bytes\r";
    }
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The \r positions the cursor to the beginning of the line, so that the next print overwrites it.

Then you change

$sftp->get($REM_FILE)
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to

$sftp->get($REM_FILE, callback => \&show_progress)
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That should do the trick...

Thank you again sir. I tried but it gives me this error.

Odd number of elements in hash assignment at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
+5.10.0/Net/SFTP/Foreign.pm line 1432.
Invalid option 'CODE(0xa53608)' or bad combination of options at ./gtp
+_logs.pl line 66
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Any thoughts sir? Also what would be the easiest way to get what I want without using CSPAN stuff? As in that simple progresss shown when you download the file manually? Many thanks in advance sir.