RE: SFTP client

We use a trigger file concept. The downloading party downloads a trigger file when all of their files have been downloaded.
We don’t process any of their files until we see that the trigger file is present.
File name ‘all.don’ or something equally clever.


From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Greg Wilburn
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2026 4:18 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: SFTP client


We are doing an increasing number of data exchanges using SFTP... I have been using the OpenSSH and scripting to accomplish this. However, we recently ran into issues where our script may have inadvertently deleted files.



The script runs "get *.csv" followed by "rm *.csv".



We think that the other party was uploading files at the same time I was downloading (several hundred or more files). So I'm looking for some way (or something) to better manage this for me.



TIA,

Greg

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