Hello

thank you for your input. I modified the script accordingly but still gives me this error: Uncaught exception from user code: Couldn't stat remote file: No such file at ./datalex.pl line 37. here is my script with the code adapted:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SFTP::Foreign;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
use diagnostics;
use Net::SFTP::Foreign::Constants qw(:error :status);

my $datestring =strftime "%d-%m-%Y", localtime;
my $host="sftp.brusselsairlines.com";
my $username="dlex";
my $local="/mnt/datalex";
my $file="BookingReport_Daily_$datestring.xls";

#nagios integration.


my $sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new($host, user=> $username, stderr_dis
+card => 1 );
$sftp->die_on_error("unable to establish SFTP Connection");

my $ok = 0;
my $failed = 0;
if ( -e "$local/$file"){
        print  "BH-ZONE-BATCHSRV-1\tfoster_report_transfer\t0\tFile \"
+$file\" has already been Downloaded to ==> \"$local\"\n";
}
else {
         unless ($sftp->get("$file", "$local/$file")) {
                if (($sftp->error == SFTP_ERR_REMOTE_STAT_FAILED or
                     $sftp->error == SFTP_ERR_REMOTE_OPEN_FAILED) and
                     $sftp->status == SSH2_FX_NO_SUCH_FILE) {
                   print  "Remote file does not exist!";
                }
                else {
                        print "Transfer Failed";
                }
                die $sftp->error;
        }
            print "File \"$file\" downloaded to ==>  \"$local\"\n";
            $sftp->remove($file);
            $ok++;
        }

#print "$ok files have been downloaded, $failed files failed!\n\n";

$sftp->disconnect();
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perhaps i should use $sftp->ls to get the filename but I do not understand how to get the name of the file in a variable.. i do not understand the hash reference. i try this but it does not work. .

my $ls = $sftp->ls( '.', wanted => qr/$datestring/)  or die "unable to
+ retrieve directory: ".$sftp->error;

my $file = "$_->{filename}\n" for (@$ls);

print $file
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thanks

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