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Overview

This is a basic example to use VFS to retrieve files from a remote system using the SFTP protocol. Files matching a specified regular expression are retrieved.

Example Configuration

For the purposes of this example the remote system is named "sftpremote.example.com". The files that will be retrieved are in a directory named */data/source/fires" and

Key Concepts

pom.xml Project file

This example uses Maven2. There is a* pom.xml* to define the project

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Compiling

Compile the source code with

mvn assembly:assembly

This will create an executable jar file in the standard target directory.

Running

Use a command like this to run the example

java -jar target/tryVfs-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar

Sample Output

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There should now be data files matching the {{{filePatternString

in the local machine directory "/extra/data/fires/smoke".