in reply to Re^2: How to execute stat command in remote server
in thread How to execute stat command in remote server

use Fcntl qw(S_ISREG);
...

if (S_ISREG($entry->{a}->perm)) {
   # entry is a regular file
}

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See fstat(2) and Net::SFTP::Foreign::Attributes for the details.

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