[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] How to cd with sftp (POD recommendation)

[Mark A. F. <mar...@ea...>]

How is "cd" supposed to work with Perl sftp? I cd somewhere, but the realpath for "." doesn't change. If I put a file without a path, it goes to the pre-cd path.

I looked at psftp and it appears I need to maintain my own "pwd" and use it with any command.  Is this true? In other words, I have to keep track of pwd? It's not a state within sftp?

I'd like to suggest the POD mention this. It wasn't intuitive to me.

Also, Dave you may recall I emailed you around Thanksgiving about how to specify the identity file (how to specify ssh args to sftp). It's done like this:

$sftp = Net::SFTP->new('some.host.name',
                             ( user => 'user',
                               ssh_args => ( ([ identity_files => ([ '/home/user/.ssh/ident_file' ]) ]) )
                             )
                         );

That was another thing that was not intuitive to me. If the POD gave an example, it would be very useful.

Thanks,
Mark