Hello monks, first off thank you for this website and your help. I am not a programmer/coder by any means, I am a sys admin. I am trying to write a script which will connect to an SFTP site and download certain files to a certain local directory. I have had some success but I am missing the last part. I can't seem to download to a directory, must a file name be specified? the problem is this script will run daily, and the file name changes daily (accounting purposes). Here is the code: 
 use Net::SFTP::Foreign;
       $host = "x.x.x.x" ;

       %args = (
                 "user" => "user" ,
                 "password" => "password" ,
                 "port" => 'port'

               ) ;

my $sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new( $host,%args, more => '-v');

$sftp->get('/directory/*.bai', '/home/appltest/cashman')
        or die "file transfer failed: " . $sftp->error;

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I have read that sftp foreign does not accept wild cards such as "*" is this true? If so how would I go about solving my dilemma of downloading files which name changes daily. Thank you for your time.

In reply to Net::SFTP::Foreign download to a local directory by mvindell

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