Secure file transfer program

sftp is a command-line interface client program to transfer files using the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), which runs inside the encrypted Secure Shell connection.

This article is about the program that uses SSH File Transfer Protocol (as in OpenSSH). For protocols and programs with similar names, see Simple file transfer protocol.
sftp
Developer(s)The OpenBSD Project
Repositorygithub.com/openssh/openssh-portable/
Written inC
Operating systemUnix, Unix-like, Microsoft Windows
TypeCommand
LicenseBSD, ISC, public domain
Websitewww.openssh.com

It provides an interactive interface similar to that of traditional command-line FTP clients.

One common implementation of sftp is part of the OpenSSH project.[1] There are other command-line SFTP clients that use different names, such as lftp, PSFTP and PSCP (from PuTTY package) and WinSCP.

See also

References
  1. sftp man page from the OpenSSH project
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