From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-07-27T21:41:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SSH::SFTP::Simple fails to get file

hackerotaku wrote:
> greetings to all
> following code fails to retrieve file from server
> the script completes with no errors produced
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> 
> require 'net/ssh'
> require 'net/ssh/sftp/attrs'
> require 'net/ssh/sftp/constants'
> require 'net/ssh/sftp/session'
> require 'net/ssh/transport/buffer'
> require 'net/ssh/sftp/simple'
> 
> Net::SSH::SFTP::Simple.new( 'www.fobar.com', 'foo', 'pass1234' ) do
> |sftp|
>         status, files = sftp.list_dir( "/backups" )
>         status, body = sftp.get( "/foo/foo.tar.bz2" )
> end

How are you testing to see if no file is retrieved? The "get" method 
doesn't store a file on the local host -- it only grabs the contents of 
the file and returns it as "body". If you want the file copied from the 
remote host and then stored on the local host, you should either 
explicitly open the local file and write to it, _or_ you can use the 
"get_file" method.

Let me know if that works for you. More work remains to be done with the 
SFTP protocol in Net::SSH, but the existing features work okay for me...

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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