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# Download operations
### Download multiple files
Downloads multiple files from the SFTP server to the machine where Flow Server is running.
#### Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Remote path | Path to downloaded files from. |
| Remote mask | Mask used to filter which files to download. Example "\*.txt". Regular expressions can also be used by prefixing with "regex:", example "regex:\[A\|B].\*" to list all files starting with "A" or "B". |
| File tranfer mode | Specifies how to handle if file already exists. |
| File copy mode | Specifies what to do with the file after download has been completed. |
| Case sensitive | Specifies if mask is case sensitive (not applicable if regex is used). |
| Recursive | Specifies whether to download files from sub directories recursivly. |
#### Output
No output.
#### Since
6.3
### Download single file
Downloads a file from the SFTP server to the machine where Flow Server is running.
#### Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Remote filename | The name of the file to be downloaded |
| Local filename | Filename of where on Flow Server to store the downloaded file. |
| File tranfer mode | Specifies how to handle if file already exists. |
| Restart position | Can be used to resume a broken transfer operation. If set to a non-zero positive value, the file being transferred is read starting from that position and is written also starting from provided position. |
#### Output
No output.
#### Since
6.3
### Download stream
Downloads a file from SFTP server and store it as Flow variable.
#### Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| Remote filename | The name of the file to be downloaded |
#### Output
Simple value (binary stream).
#### Since
6.3
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