From: "Sönke Buhr" <sonke@...>
Date: 2011-08-16T02:51:55+09:00
Subject: Re: SFTP grep on foreach

7stud -- wrote in post #1016702:
> Sönke Buhr wrote in post #1016662:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I got
>>
>>     Net::SFTP.start("somehost", "someuser", :password => "somepwd",
>> :keys => []) do |sftp|
>>       sftp.dir.foreach("/upload/") do |e|
>>
>>
>>
>> What I want to do is to only parse the files in this given directory
>> which include "findme" and "foundme" for example.
>>
>> ls -l | grep "findme\|foundme" does the trick in a normal console.
>>
>> Is there any way to do this via sftp?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards
>
>
> How about:
>
> base_path = "some/path"
>
> sftp.dir.foreach(base_path) do |entry|
>   if entry =~ /(found|find)me/
>     sftp.file.open("#{base_path}/#{entry}, "r") do |f|
>       while f.gets
>          #do something
>       end
>     end
>   end
> end

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I kind of do that already.

if %w(my string list).any? {|str| e.name.include? str}

My problem is that there are over 30.000 files on this server so my 
intend was to filter unneeded files with the foreach call. I only have 
limited access to this server...

Keep it up.

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