List files on SFTP server matching wildcard in Python using Paramiko

Question

import paramiko

client = paramiko.SSHClient()
client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
client.connect(\'hostname\', username=\'test1234\', passw         


        

Answer 1

glob will not magically start working with a remote server, just because you have instantiated SSHClient before.

You have to use Paramiko API to list the files, like SFTPClient.listdir:

import fnmatch

sftp = client.open_sftp()

for filename in sftp.listdir('/home/test'):
    if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, "*.txt"):
        print filename

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Side note: Do not use AutoAddPolicy. You lose security by doing so. See Paramiko "Unknown Server".