Re: Net::SSH2::SFTP stat function

Can't you do a ls -la and get a list? It will tell you if something is a directory or link.

my $chan = $ssh2->channel(); 
$chan->blocking(0);
$chan->exec('ls -la');  
while (<$chan>){ 
     print;  
   # regex the output here to determine what to get
}
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Re^2: Net::SSH2::SFTP stat function by james_ (Novice) on Oct 02, 2008 at 12:20 UTC
I could do the ls -la, but I'm not supposed to use external (i.e. OS) functions in this code, only native Perl functions, to ensure portability. Otherwise I'd definitely use SFTP::Foreign...	[reply]