Perl

Check if File Exists

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Demonstrates how to check to see if a file exists. 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;

# Connect to the SSH server.
my $hostname = 'sftp.example.com';
my $port = 22;
my $success = $sftp->Connect($hostname, $port);
if (!$success) {
    print $sftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Authenticate with the SSH server.  Chilkat SFTP supports
# both password-based authenication as well as public-key
# authentication.  This example uses password authenication.
$success = $sftp->AuthenticatePw('myLogin', 'myPassword');
if (!$success) {
    print $sftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
$success = $sftp->InitializeSftp();
if (!$success) {
    print $sftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Check to see if a file exists

# The return value is one of the following values:
# -1: Unable to check. Examine the LastErrorText to determine the reason for failure.
# 0: File does not exist.
# 1: The regular file exists.
# 2: It exists, but it is a directory.
# 3: It exists, but it is a symlink (only possible if followLinks is false)
# 4: It exists, but it is a special filesystem entry type.
# 5: It exists, but it is an unkown filesystem entry type.
# 6: It exists, but it is an socket filesystem entry type.
# 7: It exists, but it is an char device entry type.
# 8: It exists, but it is an block device entry type.
# 9: It exists, but it is an FIFO entry type.

my $followLinks = 1;
my $status = $sftp->FileExists('someDir/someFile.txt', $followLinks);
if ($status < 0) {
    print $sftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'status = ', $status, "\n";

print "Success\n";