# sftp

&Ferdinand.Gassauer;
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2010
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This handbook describes the sftp protocol.

TDE
sftp
protocol

SFTP is a Secure file transfer protocol. `sftp` is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp, but it performs all operations over an encrypted `ssh` transport. It may use many of the features of `ssh`, including public key authentication and compression.

Read the man page: sftp.