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itdxer
itdxer

Reputation: 1256

Recursive remove directory using SFTP

I use SFTP server for making database backup and all web site with it structure. I use bad script and now I make double duplicates on my SFTP server. I use rmdir folder but I get error:

Couldn't remove directory: Failure

If I understand right in SFTP I can remove directory just if it empty. And if I use rm folder/* I don't remove inner folders.

How I can doit another way?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 29804

Answers (3)

itdxer
itdxer

Reputation: 1256

Implement simple solution in python. I think it somebody help in future

import os
import paramiko
from stat import S_ISDIR

server ="any.sftpserver"
username = "uname"
password = "***"
path_to_hosts_file = os.path.join("~", ".ssh", "known_hosts")

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.load_host_keys(os.path.expanduser(path_to_hosts_file))
ssh.connect(server, username=username, password=password)

def isdir(path):
    try:
        return S_ISDIR(sftp.stat(path).st_mode)
    except IOError:
        return False

def rm(path):
    files = sftp.listdir(path=path)

    for f in files:
        filepath = os.path.join(path, f)
        if isdir(filepath):
            rm(filepath)
        else:
            sftp.remove(filepath)

    sftp.rmdir(path)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    rm("/path/to/some/directory/to/remove")

Upvotes: 9

user43284
user43284

Reputation: 191

You can also mount your remote directory with

sshfs [email protected]:/path/to/remote local/path

then just cd local/path and then you are free to use rm -r folder

Upvotes: 17

r0m1
r0m1

Reputation: 99

itdxer's solution is very nice, but it doesn't delete everything: it only deletes a subfolder if it was empty to start with, otherwise it will only delete its contents. It is also possible to make it shorter by combining isdir and rm.

def rm(path):
    files = sftp.listdir(path)

    for f in files:
        filepath = os.path.join(path, f)
        try:
            sftp.remove(filepath)
        except IOError:
            rm(filepath)

    sftp.rmdir(path)

Upvotes: 9

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