Hi All,

I am trying to create a SFTP handle and then switch the working directory and put a file into that new directory. I am able to switch directories (at least it does not die) but the file does not get uploaded into that directory. When uploading to the root directory, it works as expected.

I am not very familiar with objects and references and am fairly new to perl. I did look through the example directory of the Net::SFTP module, but didn't find or understand my answer. Am I supposed to initiate a shell for this somehow? Here is the relevant code I am trying to get to work

sub connect_sftp {
        #Only takes 2 arguments, host scalar, and args
        my $host = shift @_;
        my %args;
        while (@_){
                my $key = shift;
                my $value = shift;
                $args{$key}=$value;
        }

        print "Getting SFTP file handle for $host..." if ($debug);
        my $sftp_handle = Net::SFTP->new($host,%args);
        print "Success!\n" if ($debug);
        return $sftp_handle;
}
 
#LATER IN SCRIPT
my $sftp_path = "incoming"
if ("$sftp_path" ne "/"){
                                print "About to switch to $sftp_path d
+irectory...\n" if ($debug);
                                $sftp_handle->do_opendir("$sftp_path")
+ or die "Could not change cwd to $sftp_path\n";
                        }
                        print "About to send $file_path$isbn.$type to 
+$distributor at $sftp_path$isbn.$type\n" if ($debug);
                        $sftp_handle->put("$file_path$isbn.$type","$is
+bn.$type") or
                                die "SFTP Transfer Error: Tried to sen
+d $file_path$isbn.$type to $distributor at $sftp_path$isbn.$type\n";

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