Re: Retrieve remote ls command results

Hi Andrew,

It's unclear to me which side acts as the SSH server, and which side is running the SFTP command to retrieve the data.

On the client side (the side that runs the 'SFTP' tool) you should be able to retrieve the size of the file via the 'ssh' command. It has the capability of runnign remote commands (by connecting to the same SSH server you used for SFTP)

To run a remote command, simply append the command after the hostname. For example:

ssh -l my-userid hostname.com ls -l

If the client-side software is running IBM i, this is best done from QShell, and can be redirected to a data area, file, etc as you've already suggested in your previous post.

QSH CMD('ssh -l my-userid hostname.com ls -l > filename')

Make sense?



On 8/3/2012 9:45 AM, Andrew.Smith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

I have a batch CL function which sends a .ZIP file to our client via
SFTP.I have retrieved the size of the .ZIP from our IFS by using QSH to
‘ls -l’ the details
and redirect this output to a data area from which I can extract the size.


I now need to retrieve the size of the same file from our client (as part
of our customer SLA) by using SFTP or QSH or QP2TERM to ensure that the
transfer
completed successfully by comparing the file sizes.

Does anyone have any help/examples on how to run an 'ls' command on the
clients machine and get the output back in batch ?
There seems to be an answer on this thread -
http://www.iprodeveloper.com/forums/aft/55771 but unfortunately I do not
really understand how it works.

Any help/examples will be very gratefully received.

Thankyou