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SFTP Download all Files in a Directory

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Demonstrates how to download all files in a remote directory. This example uses the SyncTreeDownload method in a non-recursive mode that forces the download of all files, regardless of date/time or size differences.

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Objective-C
#import <CkoSFtp.h>
#import <NSString.h>

BOOL success = NO;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

CkoSFtp *sftp = [[CkoSFtp alloc] init];

success = [sftp Connect: @"my-ssh-server.com" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 22]];
if (success == YES) {
    success = [sftp AuthenticatePw: @"mySshLogin" password: @"mySshPassword"];
}

if (success == YES) {
    success = [sftp InitializeSftp];
}

if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",sftp.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Download all the files from the remote directory "syncDownloadTest/xml"
// into our local directory "qa_output"
// Both directories are relative paths.  The remote directory
// is relative to the HOME directory of the SSH user account.
// The local directory is relative to the current working directory of the process.
// It is also possible to use absolute paths.

NSString *remoteDir = @"syncDownloadTest/xml";
NSString *localDir = @"qa_output";
// Mode 0 causes SyncTreeDownload to download all files.
int mode = 0;
// Do not recursively descend the remote directory tree.  Just download all the files in specified directory.
BOOL recursive = NO;
success = [sftp SyncTreeDownload: remoteDir localRoot: localDir mode: [NSNumber numberWithInt: mode] recurse: recursive];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",sftp.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

NSLog(@"%@",@"Success.");