Why are you using Perl to drive EXPECT to do SFTP work? I would think it would be much easier to use Perl to drive a SFTP client to download the file and then use Perl to move it. I process several thousand files a day this way. The SFT client is PSFTP, I fire it once to do a grab of the available files which gets stashed in a temp file. I use Perl to parse that file to pull out the file names and do a second call to PSFTP to download the specific files into a temp folder. I then delete the files from the SFT server and go through the temp folder and move the files to the appropriate destination. Has worked great for many years now.

In reply to Re: Why does Expect.pm break lines into 80 characters? by eskiphill
in thread Why does Expect.pm break lines into 80 characters? by jmoore541

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