Question

I’m not a perl programmer but need to debug an error. I’m using the Net:SFTP:Foreign package.

When I attempt to get files, the following call fails:

$sftp->get(source, destination) or do { print “something went wrong.”}

This line returns “something went wrong.” What I would like is to find out WHAT went wrong! How can I extract the reason for failure?

By the way, this script has been working for months without an error. The script is very reliable, I just don’t know how to capture the reason for failure.

Answer 1

$sftp->get($source, $destination)
   or print "something went wrong: " . $sftp->error . "\n";