How to distinguish a directory in SFTP listing retrieved using SharpSSH?

Question

I need to recursively download files from the server to SFTP by SharpSsh. But I do not understand how to determine that the file name or the directory. Now I do so

 static void recDir(string remotePath, string localPath)
 {
     Sftp _c = this.sftp;
     ArrayList FileList = _c.GetFileList(remotePath);
     FileList.Remove(".");
     FileList.Remove("..");
     for (int i = 0; i < FileList.Count; i++)
     {
         try
         {
             _c.Get(remotePath + "/" + FileList[i], localPath + "/" + FileList[i]);

             Console.WriteLine("File: " + remotePath + "/" + FileList[i]);
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
             Console.WriteLine("Dir: " + remotePath + "/" + FileList[i]);
                System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(localPath + "/" + FileList[i]);
                recDir(remotePath + "/" + FileList[i], localPath + "/" + FileList[i]);
         }
     }
 }

It works, but it seems not correct.

your code seems like when any exception occurred then you tried to recursion not clear where you want recursion.. — Dhaval Patel, Mar 09 '15 at 07:42
No idea what this means: `It works, but it seems not correct.` — Sam Axe, Mar 09 '15 at 07:55
@Dan-o I'm quite sure it means that the OP is trying to make robust code, not code that "just happen to work". Using exceptions for regular program flow is smelly. — C.Evenhuis, Mar 09 '15 at 08:01

Martin Prikryl · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-28T06:40:14.250

SharpSSH API does not allow that. But you can code it as SharpSSH is open source. Note that SharpSSH is a poor choice though. It's not maintained for years.

See my answers to another similar SharpSSH questions:

Or use another SFTP library:

SSH.NET has the method SftpClient.ListDirectory returning the IEnumerable<SftpFile>. The SftpFile has the .IsDirectory property
WinSCP .NET assembly has the method Session.ListDirectory returning (via the RemoteDirectoryInfo.Files) a collection of the RemoteFileInfo with property .IsDirectory
(I'm the author of WinSCP .NET assembly)

How to distinguish a directory in SFTP listing retrieved using SharpSSH?

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