List recursively all files on sftp

Question

I\'d like to write bash script to recursively list all files (with fullpaths) on sftp and interact with paths locally afterwards (so only thing for what sftp is needed is ge

Answer 1

This recursive script does the job:

#!/bin/bash 
#

URL=user@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
TMPFILE=/tmp/ls.sftp

echo 'ls -1l' > $TMPFILE

function handle_dir {
  echo "====== $1 ========="
  local dir=$1
  sftp -b $TMPFILE "$URL:$dir" | tail -n +2 | while read info; do
    echo "$info"
    if egrep -q '^d' <<< $info; then
       info=$(echo $info)
       subdir=$(cut -d ' ' -f9- <<< $info)
       handle_dir "$dir/$subdir"
    fi
  done
}

handle_dir "."

fill URL with the sftp server data.