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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==