I have a requirement where I need to do SFTP connection to remote server, get the size of the file on remote server and depending on the size, i need to get the file onto local server. Is there any command in SFTP to get the size of the file.
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you can get the size using James's with awk
ls -l | grep "filename" | awk '{print $5}'
If you are using it in a script and want to check using logic, you can store the file size in a variable like so.
varname=$(ls -l | grep "filename" | awk '{print $5}')
Then call sftp and the task
For a remote file maybe do this
filesize=$(ssh user@domain.ex << EOT ls -l | grep "filename" | awk '{print $5}' EOT)
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