Run SFTP commands

[labarp1111]

Hi, is it possible to run SFTP commands such as "cd", "ls", "pwd", etc. (with custom parameters/arguments) through this module? We have a SFTP server where we want to run some of these commands.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Yes, it's in the examples

https://github.com/EvotecIT/Transferetto/blob/1feb05836211f04972a2e84f5ad079f0cfbe2705/Examples/Example08-ConnectSSH.ps1#L1-L19

Unless you want something more specific?

[labarp1111]

I actually tried this example but it is not working in our environment because the SFTP user IDs do not have a shell associated with them. I think to connect over SSH we will require a Shell to be associated with the user. As such, was trying to find out if we can connect over SFTP and run these commands.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

I wonder if you're having any specific issues with cd/ls/pwd etc?

Maybe it's related to RemotePathTransformation? https://github.com/sshnet/SSH.NET/wiki/ScpClient:-Remote-path-transformation and I just need to add that option?

Although it is for SCP, not SFTP which I've not added yet.

using (var client = new ScpClient("HOST", 22, "USER", "PWD"))
{
    client.RemotePathTransformation = RemotePathTransformation.ShellQuote;
    client.Connect();
    ...
}

But generally there is $sftpClient.ChangeDirectory('test1') to cd into specific dir. There is $SftpClient.CreateDirectory, DeleteDirectory and so on, just I've not added it.

[labarp1111]

We are trying to transfer files to an SFTP server running on Mainframe. After we connect to the SFTP server, the first command that we need to run is "ls /+mode=text" which sets the type conversion on the Mainframe side (from ASCII to EBCDIC). So generally this is what we do when we connect from the Unix side- sftp userid@mainframe_IP ls /+mode=text cd DIR get * exit

We want to try something similar from PowerShell.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

I don't see anything in the library that would help with that. Probably we would need to open a feature request in SSH.NET github and ask them if they have idea how to do it, and then we can try to translate it to powershell.

[labarp1111]

oh..ok. Thank you for checking on this.