Use sftp Interactively
You can use an interactive sftp session to execute one or more file management commands securely on a remote computer.
To open an interactive sftp session
- Connect to a remote host. For example:
sftp joe@myhost.com
Note: You can omit the user name if your name on the Secure Shell server is the same as your current user name.
After a successful connection is established, the following prompt appears:
sftp>
- Do any of the following:
To
Use
View a list of supported commands
help; for example:
sftp> help
Learn more about supported commands
help command; for example:
sftp> help put
Transfer and manage files
Supported commands; for example, to transfer the file demo from the local working directory to the remote working directory:
sftp> put demo
End the session
quit; for example:
sftp> quit
Note: If you launch sftp without specifying a host name, you can use the interactive open and close commands to connect to one or more hosts during your interactive session.
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