How to find whether a file is present on remote server?

shilpam has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I SFTP to a remote server. And I need to know if a particular file is present on the remote server or not. If it is present, then I need to get it to my local server. I am using Net::SFTP. Is there any way to find whether a file is present on remote server or not?

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Re: How to find whether a file is present on remote server? by McDarren (Abbot) on Feb 28, 2006 at 09:14 UTC
I've never used Net::SFTP, but it looks to me as if $sftp->ls() is what you want.	[reply]
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Re: How to find whether a file is present on remote server? by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 28, 2006 at 13:29 UTC
Just a tip. You don't show any code, but one thing to watch out for when using sftp, is that it usually requires the filenames to be full names, including their path, "$full_path_dir/$file". So remember that, if you see weird errors where files are not found or cannot be moved, yet you know they are there. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: How to find whether a file is present on remote server? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2006 at 20:45 UTC
Why do you need to check if it's there? Just try to 'get' it and handle the case where that fails, meaning it's not found.	[reply]