[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello everyone, > > Im trying to write some python code that will return information (file > size, last modified ...) about files on a remote computer that I have > 'no password' ssh access to. Ive been able to write code that logs on > to remote computers and I can issue a command using, > > os.system(ssh blah.blah.blah.org "ls -l myfile") > > but how do I store the information returned by the ls command into a > variable. The primary goal of this is to > 1. check file size on remote computer > 2. scp file to local computer > 3. make sure file size of copy and original are the same > > any suggestions would be appreciated > > thanks > gabe > Why not just use rsync across the ssh tunnel to synchronize the remote file to local file? This works great and you don't have to do much.
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