Net::SFTP::Foreign hwo to list (ls) files

ssubrat77 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, Need your expert advise to fix one urgent issue. I want to list all the files in SFTP remote server which satisfy the particular pattren like we do ls abcd*.txt. I treid to use the bleow code but not working. Please help

use Net::SFTP::Foreign;
my $sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new(
            host => 'myserver.com', 
            port => '22',
            user => 'ftpuser',  
            more => [qw( -i myserver.private.key.ppk)],
            ssh_cmd => 'plink');
$sftp->die_on_error("Unable to establish SFTP connection");

my $entry = "abcd*.txt";
my $files = $sftp->ls ('/etc', wanted => qr/$entry/) or die "unable to
+ retrive directory: ".$sftp->error;
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-- Thanks for all the replies. My problem got resolved. Thanks a lot for your help

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Re: Net::SFTP::Foreign hwo to list (ls) files by salva (Canon) on Jun 03, 2011 at 07:27 UTC
The `mget` method does what you want: `$sftp->mget("/etc/abcd.txt", $local_dir);` [download] update: Oops, that would download the files. Use `glob` if you just want to list them: `my $files = $sftp->glob("/etc/abcd.txt");` [download] or maybe... `my $files = $sftp->glob("/etc/abcd*.txt", names_only => 1);` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Net::SFTP::Foreign hwo to list (ls) files by philipbailey (Curate) on Jun 03, 2011 at 07:07 UTC
You don't say exactly what is not working. What is the output when you run your program? Given the title of your post, presumably the failure is in the directory listing. Looking at the documentation for Net:SFTP:Foreign.pm, the wanted value should be a full regex, not a glob-style expression. So perhaps you want a regex more like `/^abcd.*\.txt$/` ? Your existing regex will find files matching "abc", followed by zero or more "d", followed by one character, followed by "txt". A couple of other customary comments: please enclose code in <code> tags. You can go ahead and edit your post now to do this. It's not advisable to say that your question is "urgent" as some of the monks do not like this, and might not encourage replies.	[reply] [d/l]