getting info on remote files

[Larry Bates]

gabriel.altay at gmail.com wrote:
> hello everyone,
> 
> Im trying to write some python code that will return information (file
> size, last modified ...) about files on a remote computer that I have
> 'no password' ssh access to.  Ive been able to write code that logs on
> to remote computers and I can issue a command using,
> 
> os.system(ssh blah.blah.blah.org "ls -l myfile")
> 
> but how do I store the information returned by the ls command into a
> variable.  The primary goal of this is to
> 1. check file size on remote computer
> 2. scp file to local computer
> 3. make sure file size of copy and original are the same
> 
> any suggestions would be appreciated
> 
> thanks
> gabe
> 
Why not just use rsync across the ssh tunnel to synchronize the remote
file to local file?  This works great and you don't have to do much.

-Larry