Perl Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71+

SFTP ReadLink - Get the Target of a Symbolic Link on the Server

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Demonstrates how to retrieve the target of a symbolic link on the SFTP server. 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;

# Pass a domain or IP address..
my $success = $sftp->Connect('my-sftp-server.com', 22);
if ($success) {
    $success = $sftp->AuthenticatePw('mySFtpLogin', 'mySFtpPassword');
}

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

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

# In this example, the we already have a symbolic link named "sshd_config"
# in our SSH/SFTP user account's HOME directory.  Get the target of this link:
my $path = $sftp->ReadLink('sshd_config');
if (!$sftp->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $sftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'symlink target path = ', $path, "\n";

# Output is:
# symlink target path = /etc/ssh/sshd_config