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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Retrieve the Latest file in a folder using SFTP Post 303028824 by jgt on Tuesday 15th of January 2019 04:30:45 PM
Old 01-15-2019
Do it in two steps. First connection, just issue 'ls -ltr' and save the output to a file. Second examine the file and create an sftp script to retrieve the one required file
Sorry for the typos. On my phone.
 

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libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex(3)					  libssh2 manual					 libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex(3)

NAME
libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex - unlink an SFTP file SYNOPSIS
#include <libssh2.h> #include <libssh2_sftp.h> int libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex(LIBSSH2_SFTP *sftp, const char *filename, unsigned int filename_len); int libssh2_sftp_unlink(LIBSSH2_SFTP *sftp, const char *filename); DESCRIPTION
sftp - SFTP instance as returned by libssh2_sftp_init(3) filename - Path and name of the existing filesystem entry filename_len - Length of the path and name of the existing filesystem entry Unlink (delete) a file from the remote filesystem. RETURN VALUE
Return 0 on success or negative on failure. It returns LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN when it would otherwise block. While LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN is a negative number, it isn't really a failure per se. ERRORS
LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC - An internal memory allocation call failed. LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_SEND - Unable to send data on socket. LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_TIMEOUT - LIBSSH2_ERROR_SFTP_PROTOCOL - An invalid SFTP protocol response was received on the socket, or an SFTP operation caused an errorcode to be returned by the server. SEE ALSO
libssh2_sftp_init(3) libssh2 0.15 1 Jun 2007 libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex(3)
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