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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

  1. 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>

  2. 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 Use any of the supported sftp 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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