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feldman_c
Joined:: 2015-10-26
Posts:: 1

Get files from subfolders

2015-10-26 18:48

Hi There. New to WinSCP, and I'm struggling to do something that I believe should be simple. I want to login to my SFTP, go to a specific directory and pull files of XML type (*.XML) from all subfolders. When I run the following I get no files because the files are located in many different subfolders. If I do a cd and go directly to a subfolder I get my XML file within that specific subfolder. Not sure what I am missing here.

Thanks,
Craig

# Connect to the host and login using password
open sftp://username:pw@site.org
# Change the remote directory
cd /ecs-app/dcs/application/mainfolder
# get all the files in the remote directory and download them to a specific local directory
get *.XML f:\files\Audit\XMLs\

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: get files from subfolders

2015-10-27

It's

get * f:\files\Audit\XMLs\ -filemask=*.XML

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supermankelly
Joined:: 2017-03-13
Posts:: 10
Location:: Essex

Is there a way to only get the files and not the subfolders the files are in, which this does.

2021-06-12 14:28

get * C:\local\folder\ -filemask=*.XML

So if I have on FTP...

/root/misc1/file1.xml
/root/misc1/file2.xml
/root/misc2/file3.xml
/root/misc3/file4.xml

I get back the subfolder structure where files are found...

C:\local\folder\misc1\file1.xml
C:\local\folder\misc1\file2.xml
C:\local\folder\misc2\file3.xml
C:\local\folder\misc3\file4.xml

I need, just the files...

C:\local\folder\file1.xml
C:\local\folder\file2.xml
C:\local\folder\file3.xml
C:\local\folder\file4.xml

Cheers!

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Is there a way to only get the files and not the subfolders the files are in, which this does.

2021-06-15

@supermankelly: See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/script_download_files_to_same_folder

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