Using tsNet for sftp directory file listing

[Charles Warwick]

On 29/10/2016 7:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Skip Kimpel wrote:
>
> > Can anybody guide me in getting a file listing from a remote
> > directory via SFTP connection?  I currently have tsNet functioning
> > to make the connection and uploading / downloading an individual
> > file.  However, I need to retrieve a list of files sitting in a
> > directory.
>
> It's been a while since I've used FTP, but IIRC in previous versions 
> you could just use "get" on a directory and it'll return the file list 
> (note that the trailing "/" is important to let libURL know it's 
> dealing with a directory):
>
>   get url "ftp://name:pass@server/folder/"
>
> Has that changed?
>
Using "get url /path/to/dir/" or "put url /path/to/dir/ into x" works 
with tsNet for both ftp and sftp protocols.

You can also do the same thing using the synchronous or asynchronous 
tsNetGet* functions by specifying the directory with a trailing slash as 
the URL.

As Richard said, the format varies for directory listings if you get a 
"full" listing.  If you are just after the list of filenames, you can 
use "tsNetSetDirNLST true" if using tsNet commands directly, or 
"libUrlSetFtpListCommand 'NLST'" when using libUrl.

Cheers,

Charles