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Cannot get file list from ftp using ls()

See original GitHub issue

I have FTP server which has a folder with a bunch of images in it. I do not know the image names. I want to access all the image files from that FTP folder and read them as base64 format one by one, so I can upload them to some other destination. I am trying to get the list of files in the ftp using the ls() method but run into the error below.

var ftps = new FTPS({
		host: 'ftp://mydomain.com/', // required
		username: 'username', // required
		password: 'password', // required
		protocol: 'ftp', // optional, values : 'ftp', 'sftp', 'ftps',... default is 'ftp'
		// protocol is added on beginning of host, ex : sftp://domain.com in this case
		port: 22, // optional
		// port is added to the end of the host, ex: sftp://domain.com:22 in this case
		escape: true, // optional, used for escaping shell characters (space, $, etc.), default: true
		retries: 2, // Optional, defaults to 1 (1 = no retries, 0 = unlimited retries)
		timeout: 10,
		requiresPassword: true, // Optional, defaults to true
		autoConfirm: true, // Optional, is used to auto confirm ssl questions on sftp or fish protocols, defaults to false
		cwd: '' // Optional, defaults to the directory from where the script is executed
	});

	ftps.ls().exec(function(err, res){
		if(err || res.error){
			console.log('-------- error');
			return console.log('Error getting file list:', (err || res.error));
		}
		console.log('------- response: ' + res);
	});

I get the following error:

Error getting file list: { [Error: spawn ENOENT] code: ‘ENOENT’, errno: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘spawn’ }