Re: [Ssh-sftp-perl-users] About sftp->ls method

[Heiko J. <ja...@hb...>]

Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 17:29 +0530 schrieb Rajnikant:

>  
> I'm using sftp->ls method to see files on remote location. Following
> files are present on remote location:
> 5.txt, 4.txt, 3.txt, 2.txt, 1.txt
>  
> Is there possibility that I'll get sftp->ls out put as 
> 5.txt
> 4.txt
> --
> --
> 1.txt
>  
> Can I have sorted sftp->ls out put? Out put I want is:
> 1.txt
> --
> --
> 4.txt
> 5.txt

As far as I know, $sftp->ls() (where $sftp IS_A Net::SFTP object)
returns a list of hash references and there are no options of
pre-sorting that list.
But no one stops you from iterating over the list, extracting the names
and sorting them in any way you like.
So the answer to your questions is "yes" - but the way to get there is
possibly not as convenient as you'd hoped ;-)

Heiko

PS: Another option would be to use do_opendir($path) and then use a
readdir-loop directly on the dir handle, fetching all filenames and
sorting them afterwards.

PPS: Yet another method: Use Net::SSH2, execute a shell command ("ls"
with the necessary switches) and capture and parse the output.