Re: SFTP client

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Im sure there's scripting for SFTP that's better/easier than DOS FTP.  I
remember that was a really deep dive.  I tried to find the source but
haven't yet. I know I have it somewhere because I impressed myself.  It's
ugly... if you've ever done any real deep DOS programming you'll
understand..

I like the idea of renaming files too, but you may still run into the issue
of renaming it while it's still being uploaded.  I imagine that would be
the case in most times.

There are better methods than SFTP in my view...  they could push the files
to you directly for example.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 10:44 AM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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