Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I'm niks, and i'm a newbie here and newbie also in perl sorry,

i'm just wondering how can i get the file from the other hostname using sftp? then after i get it i'm going to sort the file and process it one by one. sorry because i'm a newbie.

Thanks,
-niks

Retrieving a list of file names from an ftp server
Net::SFTP - search.cpan.org

Hi Sir Itkamaraj,

how do i used the SFTP module in perl? because i think it needs to install the module. what i did is i tried to install it using cpan but i have no luck(please see below).

cpan Net::SFTP::Foreign
Resolving ftp.perl.org... 86.49.49.49, 64.59.140.91
Connecting to ftp.perl.org|86.49.49.49|:21... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to ftp.perl.org|64.59.140.91|:21... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

Please advise.
Thanks,
-niks

Try the below commnad

Code:

 
perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::SFTP"

still i'm out of luck master. there's a lot of question below while installing the SFTP module is this important? i just enter it.

Where is your gzip program? [/bin/gzip]
Where is your tar program? [/bin/tar]
Where is your unzip program? [/usr/bin/unzip]
Where is your make program? [/usr/bin/make]
Where is your links program? [/usr/bin/links]
Where is your wget program? [/usr/bin/wget]
Warning: ncftpget not found in PATH
Where is your ncftpget program? []
Warning: ncftp not found in PATH
Where is your ncftp program? []
Where is your ftp program? [/usr/kerberos/bin/ftp]
Where is your gpg program? [/usr/bin/gpg]
What is your favorite pager program? [/usr/bin/less]
What is your favorite shell?

THanks,