Perl

SFTP Download all Files in a Directory

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Demonstrates how to download all files in a remote directory. This example uses the SyncTreeDownload method in a non-recursive mode that forces the download of all files, regardless of date/time or size differences. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $sftp = Chilkat2::SFtp->new;

my $success = $sftp->Connect('my-ssh-server.com', 22);
if ($success) {
    $success = $sftp->AuthenticatePw('mySshLogin', 'mySshPassword');
}

if ($success) {
    $success = $sftp->InitializeSftp();
}

if (!$success) {
    print $sftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Download all the files from the remote directory "syncDownloadTest/xml"
# into our local directory "qa_output"
# Both directories are relative paths.  The remote directory
# is relative to the HOME directory of the SSH user account.
# The local directory is relative to the current working directory of the process.
# It is also possible to use absolute paths.

my $remoteDir = 'syncDownloadTest/xml';
my $localDir = 'qa_output';
# Mode 0 causes SyncTreeDownload to download all files.
my $mode = 0;
# Do not recursively descend the remote directory tree.  Just download all the files in specified directory.
my $recursive = 0;
$success = $sftp->SyncTreeDownload($remoteDir, $localDir, $mode, $recursive);
if (!$success) {
    print $sftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "Success.\n";