Re^2: How to find whether a file is present on remote server?

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Re^3: How to find whether a file is present on remote server? by McDarren (Abbot) on Feb 28, 2006 at 09:35 UTC
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. [download] 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)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: How to find whether a file is present on remote server?
by McDarren (Abbot) on Feb 28, 2006 at 09:35 UTC

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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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)

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