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{{Short description|Secure file-transfer software}}

The sftp command (''Secure File Transfer Program'') is an [[SFTP]] client for Unix-like Operating Systems.

{{About|the program that uses SSH File Transfer Protocol (as in OpenSSH)|protocols and programs with similar names|Secure file transfer protocol (disambiguation){{!}}Simple file transfer protocol}}

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{{Infobox Software

| name = sftp

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| developer = The [[OpenBSD]] Project

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| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/}}

| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]

| operating system = [[Unix]], [[Unix-like]], [[Microsoft Windows]]

| genre = [[Command (computing)|Command]]

| license = [[BSD licenses#2-clause|BSD]], [[ISC license|ISC]], [[Public-___domain software|public ___domain]]

| website = {{URL|https://www.openssh.com/}}

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'''{{mono|sftp}}''' is a [[command-line interface]] client [[Computer program|program]] to transfer files using the [[SSH File Transfer Protocol]] (SFTP), which runs inside the encrypted [[Secure Shell]] connection.

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One common implementation of {{mono|sftp}} is part of the [[OpenSSH]] project.<ref name="openssh">[https://man.openbsd.org/sftp sftp man page from the OpenSSH project]</ref> There are other command-line SFTP clients that use different names, such as [[lftp]], PSFTP and PSCP (from [[PuTTY]] package) and [[WinSCP]].

sftp has been developed by Damien Miller, who is also the main developer of [[OpenSSH]]

==See also==

* [[Comparison of SSH servers]]

* [[Comparison of SSH clients]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Windows commands}}

[[Category:Command-line software]]

[[Category:SSH File Transfer Protocol clients]]

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