# sftp

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Malcolm Hunter

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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.

See the manual: sftp.