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Get a Remote File's Creation Time

Demonstrates the Chilkat SFtp.GetFileCreateTimeStr method, which returns a remote file's creation date and time. The arguments are the remote path (or handle), whether symbolic links are followed, and whether the first argument is a handle.

Background: Creation time is the least universally available of the three timestamps: many Unix filesystems historically tracked only modified and accessed times, so a server may return nothing or a placeholder. Where it is supported it is genuinely useful — it does not change when a file is edited, unlike the modified time — but code should tolerate its absence rather than depend on it.

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llSuccess = .F.

//  Demonstrates the SFtp.GetFileCreateTimeStr method, which returns a remote file's creation date
//  and time.  The 1st argument is the remote path (or handle), the 2nd selects whether symbolic
//  links are followed, and the 3rd indicates whether the 1st argument is a handle.

loSftp = createobject("CkSFtp")

//  Connect, authenticate, and initialize the SFTP subsystem.
lnPort = 22
llSuccess = loSftp.Connect("sftp.example.com",lnPort)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loSftp.LastErrorText
    release loSftp
    return
endif

//  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
//  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
lcPassword = "mySshPassword"

llSuccess = loSftp.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",lcPassword)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loSftp.LastErrorText
    release loSftp
    return
endif

llSuccess = loSftp.InitializeSftp()
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loSftp.LastErrorText
    release loSftp
    return
endif

//  The 2nd argument (bFollowLinks) selects whether a symbolic link is followed to its target.
//  The 3rd argument (bIsHandle) is .F. here because the 1st argument is a path, not an
//  open handle.
llBFollowLinks = .T.
llBIsHandle = .F.

lcCreateTime = loSftp.GetFileCreateTimeStr("subdir/report.pdf",llBFollowLinks,llBIsHandle)
if (loSftp.LastMethodSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loSftp.LastErrorText
    release loSftp
    return
endif

? "Created: " + lcCreateTime

//  Note: Not all servers and filesystems record a creation time.

loSftp.Disconnect()


release loSftp