Secure file transfer program

This article is about the program that uses SSH File Transfer Protocol (as in OpenSSH). For protocols and programs with similar names, see Simple file transfer protocol.

sftp is a command-line interface client program to transfer files using the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), which runs inside the encrypted Secure Shell connection.

sftp
Developer(s)	The OpenBSD Project
Repository	github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix, Unix-like, Microsoft Windows
Type	Command
License	BSD, ISC, public ___domain
Website	www.openssh.com

It provides an interactive interface similar to that of traditional command-line FTP clients.

One common implementation of sftp is part of the OpenSSH project.^[1] 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

References

1. sftp man page from the OpenSSH project