使用WinSCP .NET程序集仅使用SFTP协议删除或移动所选文件

Question

I'm trying to develop a simple SFTP file transferring project with following operations

1. Upload
2. Download
3. Move files within the remote server
4. Remove files

While uploading in session.PutFiles() we have a property called transferOptions.FileMask to filter the files.

But I didn't see anything of that kind in session.MoveFile() and in session.RemoveFiles()

My question is what should I do if I need to move/remove only selected files?

Answer 1

The Session.RemoveFiles accepts a file mask .

So you can do:

session.RemoveFiles("/home/user/*.txt");

It's the same as with the Session.PutFiles . The TransferOptions.FileMask is actually intended for advanced selections, like when you want to select files recursively, or when you want to exclude certain types of files.

session.PutFiles(@"c:\toupload\*.txt", "/home/user/");

With the TransferOption.FileMask , WinSCP would upload all matching files recursively. While with a simple file mask as the argument to the .PutFiles , it's not recursive.

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The Session.MoveFile actually supports the file mask in its first argument too, though it's an undocumented feature.

A proper way would be to list remote directory, select desired files and call the Session.MoveFile for each.

See Listing files matching wildcard . It's a PowerShell example, but mapping it to C# should be easy.