Re: SFTP client

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote a program/dos/ftp script  years ago for plain FTP that would do the
following:

1.  List the files
2.  Download the files using the list.
3.  Verify we have the files.
4.  Delete the files using the list.

Using a wildcard you're going to run into issues.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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