Yes, well... did you read the explaination of what the ls() method does?

Let me help you out.... 

$sftp->ls($remote [, $subref ])

Fetches a directory listing of $remote.

If $subref is specified, for each entry in the directory, $subref will
+ be called and given a reference to a hash with three keys: filename,
+ the name of the entry in the directory listing; longname, an entry i
+n a "long" listing like ls -l; and a, a Net::SFTP::Attributes object,
+ which contains the file attributes of the entry (atime, mtime, permi
+ssions, etc.).

If $subref is not specified, returns a list of directory entries, each
+ of which is a reference to a hash as described in the previous parag
+raph.

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So.... all you do is call ls() on your remote directory, and then test whether or not $subref->{'yourfile'} exists. If it does, download it - if it doesn't, um.. don't.

What about that can't be automated?

(PS. I may not have that usage exactly correct - but if you've been able to write the script in the first place, I'm sure you can figure out the correct usage)

In reply to Re^3: How to find whether a file is present on remote server? by McDarren
in thread How to find whether a file is present on remote server? by shilpam

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