Thank you all for those great suggestions! Quite clever - I can discuss with our partner.
Brad - I thought about listing the files, but I'm not sure how to incorporate that into an SFTP script sitting on the IFS. For FTP, I use Scott's FTP API where I list the files, get/delete them one-at-a-time.
I guess I could create a second script on the IFS containing each filename and run that script?
I just spoke with Fortra regarding GoAnywhere.
Thanks ALL!
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] 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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