Secure file transfer program

{{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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| developer = The OpenBSD Project

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

| programming language = C

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

| genre = Command

| license = BSD, ISC, public domain

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

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{{mono|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.

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

One common implementation of {{mono|sftp}} is part of the OpenSSH project.[https://man.openbsd.org/sftp sftp man page from the OpenSSH project] There are other command-line SFTP clients that use different names, such as lftp, PSFTP and PSCP (from PuTTY package) and WinSCP.