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Old 06-06-2013
Help with SFTP on directories
Hi Junta,

please help me with SFTP on remote directories.

i want to get the latest generated directory and its contents from remote machine to local host using SFTP. is there any possible way to achive this?? please help me. i feel its a bottle neck for meSmilieSmilie
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Old 06-06-2013
If your sftp supports ls -t, I might try this:

Code:
sftp username@host <<EOF > dirlist
ls -t /path/to/remotefolder
EOF

LATEST="$(head -n 1 dirlist)"

sftp username@host <<EOF
mget /path/to/remotefolder/${LATEST}/*
EOF

rm dirlist

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