[Tutor] sftp get single file

[Matt Herzog]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:57:57PM +0200, Sander Sweers wrote:
> Please reply to the list.
> 
> 2009/7/20 Matt Herzog <msh at blisses.org>:
> > Yeah. I have no idea if I am able to do this. The jail makes it ambiguous.
> 
> There is no difference, the jail just moves the root directory as seen
> by the client.
> 
> Did you do as suggested earlier to use listdir()? This will tell you
> how paramiko sees the server.

Yeah, I managed to get that to work like so:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    t = paramiko.Transport((hostname, port))
    t.connect(username=username, password=password)
    sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(t)
    print sftp.listdir()
    t.close()

It displays the contents of the dir no problem.

> 
> I get the feeling you are in on over your head on this. 

Yes, and I have a deadline.

> Maybe you need
> to read the paramiko docs and play around in idle or other interactive
> python interpreter. The SFTPClient has all the basic commands any ssh
> client has (listdir, chdir etc). See [1].

I should not need to chdir, right? In fact, the server's policy forbids it.
Perhaps I need to chdir on the local host?

> Also have a look at [2] which is a good example of what can be done.

Yeah I saw that page. The code seemed bloated to me.

> 
> Greets
> Sander
> 
> [1] http://www.lag.net/paramiko/docs/paramiko.SFTPClient-class.html
> [2] http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576810/
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