Open file on remote linux server

[Martien Verbruggen]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:41:35 +0200,
	Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> The Bear schrieb:
>> Hi I'm looking to do something like this
>> 
>> f = f.openfileobj(remotefileloc, localfilelikeobj)
>> 
>> my remote files are on a solaris box that i can access using ssh (could
>> prehap request othe protocols if necessary)
>> 
>> anyone got any ideas?
>
> try paramiko. Or just use subprocess to scp and open the file locally.


import paramiko

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.load_system_host_keys(os.environ['HOME'] + '/.ssh/known_hosts')
ssh.connect('localhost')
try:
    ftp = ssh.open_sftp()
    # To write
    fh = ftp.file('/tmp/foo.test', 'w')
    fh.write('This is a test string\nAnd this is another one')
    fh.close()
    # To read
    fh = ftp.file('/tmp/foo.test', 'r')
    for l in fh:
        print l,
    fh.close()
finally:
    ssh.close()

You may need to add some password handling in there (for me my
environment takes care of that).

Martien
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