Re: ssl ftp

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, I don't have anything quite that sophisticated, sorry.  I 
tend to prefer 'scp' over 'sftp' for file transfers because it's easier 
to tell if it succeeded or failed -- scp will return 0 to the unix shell 
if it succeeded, and something else if it failed.  So you can easily 
tell success from failure.  Unfortunately, 'scp' doesn't have the 
ability to list files, delete files, etc.  It can only send/receive.

So I guess what I'd do in your shoes (keep in mind that I haven't done 
this, it's just off the top of my head)...   I'd connect w/sftp to get 
the directory listing, then disconnect. Throw the file list into an 
array in my program.   Then, spin through the array and use 'scp' to get 
each file.  Then, use the array to build an 'sftp' script to delete the 
files...

Not nearly as elegant as FTPAPI, but it works.

Porterfield, Sean wrote:
> The next project I have will be slightly more advanced, and it would
> be great to have more information about what is happening.  I need to
> know if there are files or not.  I need to delete files after I
> download them.  Other things that would be better suited to an
> intelligent program than a blind script.
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