That is pretty much the approach I have taken as well.  In my instance, the 
batch  is written dynamically, based on the required process (read from an INI 
file) and the files found either remotely or locally (based on wildcard 
searches).

The command that we call looks like:
$command = "echo n|\"$psftpDir\\psftp\" $ftpUid\@$ftpAddr -i $ftpKey -pw 
$ftpPwd -bc -b $commandFile 1>$outputFile 2>$errorFile"

The echo answers the caching prompt, the biggest gotcha that I have with the 
process.

From: Mike Malony [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2014 9:22 AM
To: Ashley Hoff
Cc: Schwartz, Peter W; [email protected]
Subject: Re: SFTP

I had much the same experience.

I've used both PSFTP.exe from Putty and sftp.exe from Cygwin.

In both cases I write a batch file and execute the exe via a system call.

 $RUNSTRING = "$main::sftpbin -b $SFTP_BATCH_FILE $SFTPLOGIN >> $TEMPLOG"; 

## which translates to 
##'c:\cygwin\bin\sftp -b c:\work\client_batch.txt user@site >> 
\work\client_user.yyymmdd.log

 $my_rc = system("$runstring");

For error trapping you need to capture the output and scan it for key words. 
Though, I think sftp from cygwin give a pretty trustworthy success/fail return 
code. psftp doesn't.

Good luck,
Mike

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Ashley Hoff <[email protected]> wrote:
Not sure if you are going to get much more of a response Peter - this mail list 
seems pretty dead.

As far as I know, it's not an easy task to actually get SFTP client 
functionality in Perl.  I've had plenty of issues over the years, that I gave 
up trying to find a Perl module that will do what I want.

In the end, I used PSFTP.exe via a system command call.  PSFTP is included with 
Putty.  It can be a bit of a hack, but you can get it to work.  Some of the 
Gotcha's include answering all the interactive prompts (or more to the point, 
ignore some of them) and capture output, but it's all doable.

Cheers
Ashley

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Schwartz, Peter W
Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2014 2:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: SFTP

I'm trying to locate an SFTP install for Windows (32-bit) but I can't seem to 
find anything in the PPM for some reason.  Does anyone have any recommendations 
on how to get this for Windows?

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