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

'''<tt>sftp</tt>''' is a [[command-line interface]] client [[Computer program|program]] to transfer files using the [[SSH File Transfer Protocol]] (SFTP) 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>

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