- Open/Close connection
- Open a connection to a remote system by using the sftp command.
sftp> remote-system
If the connection succeeds, a confirmation message and prompt are displayed.
- If prompted, type your password.
~$ Password: ***********
If the sftp interface accepts your password, it displays a confirmation message and the (sftp>) prompt.
You can now use any of the commands that are supplied by the SFTP interface, including help.
- Close the sftp connection.
sftp> bye
Example 3-2 Opening an sftp Connection to a Remote System
This sftp session was established to connect to the remote system pluto:
~$ sftp pluto
Connecting to pluto.
Password: password
sftp>
- Copy Files From a Remote System
- Establish an sftp connection.
See How to Open and Close an sftp Connection to a Remote System.
- (Optional) Change to a directory on the local system where you want the files copied to.
sftp> lcd target-directory
- Change to the source directory.
sftp> cd source-directory
- Ensure that you have read permission for the source files.
sftp> ls -l
- To copy a file, use the get command.
Metacharacters may be used with the get command.
sftp> get filename
- Close the sftp connection.
sftp> bye
Example 3-3 Copying a File From a Remote System (sftp)
In this example, the user opens an sftp connection to the system pluto, and uses the get command to copy a single file from the /tmp directory.
~$ sftp pluto
Connecting to pluto...
Password: xxx
sftp> lcd /tmp
sftp> cd /tmp
sftp> ls
filea
files
ps_data
sftp> get filea
/tmp/filea 100% 494 0.5KB/s 00:00
sftp> bye
- Copy Files to a Remote System
- Change to the source directory on the local system.
The directory from which you type the sftp command is the local working directory and thus the source directory for this operation.
- Establish an sftp connection.
See How to Open and Close an sftp Connection to a Remote System.
- You can change to the target directory.
sftp> cd target-directory
- Ensure that you have write permission in the target directory.
sftp> ls -l target-directory
- To copy a single file, use the put command.
Metacharacters may be used with the get command.
sftp> put filename
- Close the sftp connection.
sftp> bye
Example 3-4 Copying a File to a Remote System (sftp)
In this example, the user opens an sftp connection to the system pluto, and uses the put command to copy a file from their system to the /tmp directory on system pluto.
$ cd /tmp
$ sftp pluto
Password: xxx
sftp> cd /tmp
sftp> put filef
uploading filef to /tmp/filef
filef 100% 325 0.3KB/s 00:00
sftp> ls
filea
filef
files
sftp> bye
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