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.IX Title "Net::SSH2::SFTP 3pm"
.TH Net::SSH2::SFTP 3pm "2021-01-03" "perl v5.32.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Net::SSH2::SFTP \- SSH 2 Secure FTP object
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
An \s-1SFTP\s0 object is created by the Net::SSH2 \f(CW\*(C`sftp\*(C'\fR method.
.SS "error"
.IX Subsection "error"
Returns the last \s-1SFTP\s0 error (one of the LIBSSH2_FX_* constants).  Use this
when Net::SSH2::error returns \s-1LIBSSH2_ERROR_SFTP_PROTOCOL.\s0  In list context,
returns (code, error name).
.SS "die_with_error( [message] )"
.IX Subsection "die_with_error( [message] )"
Calls \f(CW\*(C`die\*(C'\fR with the given message and the error information from the
object appended.
.SS "open ( file [, flags [, mode ]]] )"
.IX Subsection "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.
.SS "opendir ( dir )"
.IX Subsection "opendir ( dir )"
Open a directory on the remote host; returns a Net::SSH2::Dir object on success.
.SS "unlink ( file )"
.IX Subsection "unlink ( file )"
Delete the remote file.
.SS "rename ( old, new [, flags ] )"
.IX Subsection "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).
.SS "mkdir ( path [, mode ] )"
.IX Subsection "mkdir ( path [, mode ] )"
Create directory; mode defaults to 0777.
.SS "rmdir ( path )"
.IX Subsection "rmdir ( path )"
Remove directory.
.SS "stat ( path [, follow ] )"
.IX Subsection "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:
.IP "mode" 4
.IX Item "mode"
.PD 0
.IP "size" 4
.IX Item "size"
.IP "uid" 4
.IX Item "uid"
.IP "gid" 4
.IX Item "gid"
.IP "atime" 4
.IX Item "atime"
.IP "mtime" 4
.IX Item "mtime"
.PD
.SS "setstat ( path, key, value... )"
.IX Subsection "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.
.SS "symlink ( path, target [, type ] )"
.IX Subsection "symlink ( path, target [, type ] )"
Create a symbolic link to a given target.
.SS "readlink ( path )"
.IX Subsection "readlink ( path )"
Return the target of the given link, undef on failure.
.SS "realpath ( path )"
.IX Subsection "realpath ( path )"
Resolve a filename's path; returns the resolved path, or undef on error.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
Net::SSH2.
.PP
Check Net::SFTP::Foreign for a high level, perlish and easy to use
\&\s-1SFTP\s0 client module. It can work on top of Net::SSH2 via the
Net::SFTP::Foreign::Backend::Net_SSH2 backend module.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
David B. Robins, <dbrobins@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 by David B. Robins; all rights reserved.
.PP
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.