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.

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.

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