Re: Retrieve remote ls command results

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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