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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''<tt>{{mono|sftp</tt>}}''' 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 <tt>{{mono|sftp</tt>}} 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]].

==See also==

* [[SSH File Transfer Protocol]]

* [[Comparison of SSH servers]]

* [[Comparison of SSH clients]]

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[[Category:Command-line software]]

[[Category:SFTPSSH File Transfer Protocol clients]]

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