#!/bin/bash

localpath=/home/localacct/somepath
remotelocation=/home/account/logs/archive
remotehost=' account@1.1.1.1'

    echo  > $localpath/list.sftp
    echo "cd $remotelocation " >> $localpath/list.sftp
    echo "dir *.* " >> $localpath/list.sftp
    echo "dir *.* > $localpath/dirlist.txt " >> $localpath/list.sftp
    echo "bye " >> $localpath/list.sftp
    sftp -b $localpath/list.sftp $remotehost

exit

mkdir remote
sshfs "$remotehost:$remotelocation" remote
cd remote

echo *.* >"$localpath/dirlist.txt"

fusermount -u remote
rmdir remote

sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /var/tmp/foodir
sftp> lcd /var/tmp/foodir
sftp> dir *.*
foo.txt
sftp> dir *.* >dirlist.txt
foo.txt
sftp> dir
foo.txt
sftp>

ls [-1afhlnrSt] [path]
         Display a remote directory listing of either path or the current directory if path is not specified.  path may contain glob(3) characters and may match mul‐
         tiple files.

         The following flags are recognized and alter the behaviour of ls accordingly:

         -1      Produce single columnar output.

         -a      List files beginning with a dot (‘.’).

         -f      Do not sort the listing.  The default sort order is lexicographical.

         -h      When used with a long format option, use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, and Exabyte in order to reduce the
                 number of digits to four or fewer using powers of 2 for sizes (K=1024, M=1048576, etc.).

         -l      Display additional details including permissions and ownership information.

         -n      Produce a long listing with user and group information presented numerically.

         -r      Reverse the sort order of the listing.

         -S      Sort the listing by file size.

         -t      Sort the listing by last modification time.

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn sftp username@reports.paypal.com:/ppreports/outgoing
expect "password:"
send "XXXXXXXXXXn"
expect "sftp>"
log_file -noappend RemoteFileList.txt
send "ls -1n"
expect "sftp>"
log_file
send "!sed -i '' '/ls -1/d' ./RemoteFileList.txtn"
expect "sftp>"
send "!sed -i '' '/sftp>/d' ./RemoteFileList.txtn"
expect "sftp>"
send "byen"
interact

#!/bin/bash
localpath=/home/local-acct/path
remotelocation=/home/account/logs/archive
remotehost=' account@1.2.3.4'
rsync -avz $remotehost:/$remotelocation > $localpath/dirlist.txt
exit

lftp -c 'connect sftp://user:password@host/dir; ls' > list.txt

lftp -e 'ls;quit' sftp://user:password@host/dir > list.txt

LFTP_PASSWORD=password lftp --env-password -e 'ls;quit'
   sftp://user:password@host/dir > file.list

lftp <<'EOF' > file.list
connect sftp://user:password@host/dir
ls
EOF