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

The <tt>sftp</tt> command is a [[command-line]] client [[Computer program|program]] implementing the client-side of the [[SSH file transfer protocol]] as implemented by the <tt>sftp-server</tt> command by the [[OpenSSH]] project, which runs inside the encrypted [[Secure Shell]] connection.<ref name="openssh">[http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1 sftp man page from the openssh project]</ref>

{{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.

It provides an interactive interface similar to that of traditional command-line [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] clients.

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]].

<tt>sftp</tt> should not be confused with running an [[FTP_over_SSH|FTP client over an SSH connection]].

==See also==

One implementation of <tt>sftp</tt> is part of the OpenSSH project.<ref name="openssh" />

* [[Comparison of SSH servers]]

* [[Comparison of SSH clients]]

==References==

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{{Windows commands}}

[[Category:CryptographicCommand-line software]]

[[Category:SSH File Transfer Protocol clients]]

[[Category:Cryptographic protocols]]

[[Category:Cryptographic software]]

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