Net::SSH2::SFTP(3)

NAME
Net::SSH2::SFTP - SSH 2 Secure FTP object

DESCRIPTION
An SFTP object is created by the Net::SSH2 "sftp" method.

  error
Returns the last SFTP error (one of the LIBSSH2_FX_* constants). Use this when Net::SSH2::error returns LIBSSH2_ERROR_SFTP_PROTOCOL. In list context, returns (code, error name).

  die_with_error( [message] )
Calls "die" with the given message and the error information from the object appended.

  open ( file [, flags [, mode ]]] )
Open or create a file on the remote host. The flags are the standard O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, O_RDWR, O_APPEND, O_CREAT, O_TRUNC, and O_EXCL, which may be combined as usual. Flags default to O_RDONLY and mode to 0666 (create only). Returns a Net::SSH2::File object on success.

  opendir ( dir )
Open a directory on the remote host; returns a Net::SSH2::Dir object on success.

  unlink ( file )
Delete the remote file.

  rename ( old, new [, flags ] )
Rename old to new. Flags are taken from LIBSSH2_SFTP_RENAME_*, and may be combined; the default is to use all (overwrite, atomic, native).

  mkdir ( path [, mode ] )
Create directory; mode defaults to 0777.

  rmdir ( path )
Remove directory.

  stat ( path [, follow ] )
Get file attributes for the given path. If follow is set (default), will follow symbolic links. On success, returns a hash containing the following:

mode
size
uid
gid
atime
mtime

  setstat ( path, key, value... )
Set file attributes for given path; keys are the same as those returned by stat; note that it's not necessary to pass them all.

  symlink ( path, target [, type ] )
Create a symbolic link to a given target.

  readlink ( path )
Return the target of the given link, undef on failure.

  realpath ( path )
Resolve a filename's path; returns the resolved path, or undef on error.

SEE ALSO
Net::SSH2.

Check Net::SFTP::Foreign for a high level, perlish and easy to use SFTP client module. It can work on top of Net::SSH2 via the Net::SFTP::Foreign::Backend::Net_SSH2 backend module.

AUTHOR
David B. Robins, <dbrobins@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 by David B. Robins; all rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.