Hi, I did not know you could use du. Nice
Perhaps it is a path isue. I have a sftp site which had simaliar issue to and kept giving me access failed. Try (3.6.3 and up) set sftp:use-full-path yes Bill lftp forever! On 4/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > I don't think that this is what I want - I'm connected to a remote server > via SFTP and want to know the diskusage of a remote file - as it works with > a FTP connection without problems. > > The 'du' is a command that is supported by LFTP, by the way (see "help du" > within LFTP shell) > > Regards > Stefan. > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Bill Dorsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Stefan, > > > > If you are running that on the local server, then you will need the ! in > > front of it. The bang escapes from the lftp client and allow commands to run > > locally. > > > > > > Bill > > > > LFTP forever! > > > > > > On 4/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > I have a problem with 'du' command when using a connection in sftp > > > mode - if executed on a non-existent file, there is no error or anything > > > else :-( > > > When using "normal" ftp protocol, everything works as expected. But > > > using sftp the result size changes between 0 and some very large > > > numbers... > > > (see below) > > > > > > lftp :~> open sftp://myHost; user myUser myPassword; > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cd /media > > > cd ok, cwd=/media > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> du -b nonExistentFile > > > 0 nonExistentFile > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> du -b nonExistentFile > > > 8101815696560631342 nonExistentFile > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> du -b nonExistentFile > > > 8591075616 nonExistentFile > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> du -b nonExistentFile > > > 1536 nonExistentFile > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> du -b nonExistentFile > > > 8591128088 nonExistentFile > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> du -b nonExistentFile > > > 32219504624795648 nonExistentFile > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> open myHost; user myUser myPassword; > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cd /media > > > cd ok, cwd=/media > > > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media> du -b nonExistentFile > > > du: Access failed: 550 /media/nonExistentFile: No such file or > > > directory. > > > > > > > > > This error occurs on lftp version 3.5.14 as well as on 3.7.0 (I didn't > > > tested other ones), compiled and used on Solaris 10. > > > > > > Can you please explain this behaviour to me? Thanks a lot for this > > > wonderful tool nevertheless ;) > > > Best regards, Stefan. > > > > > > > > > > > >
