From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-08-03T03:23:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Read file over SSH

Shashank Agarwal wrote:

> Is there a way to read a file over SSH? I looked at the net/ssh library
> but couldn't put together a working code.

Here's a wild guess - does it help?

require 'net/ssh'
require 'net/sftp'

Net::SSH.start( 'myserver', 'myname', 'mypassword' ) do |session|
     session.sftp.connect do |sftp|
        sftp.get_file('path/filename', 'filename')
     end
end

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   Phlip