Psftp (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

psftp – interactive SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) client


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[options] & nbsp;
[user @] host

psftp is an interactive text-based client for the SSH-based SFTP (secure file transfer) protocol.

The command-line options supported by psftp are:

-V: Show version information and exit.
-pgpfp: Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys and exit, to aid in verifying new files released by the PuTTY team.
-b batchfile: Use specified batchfile.
-bc: Output batchfile commands.
-be: Don’t stop batchfile processing on errors.
-v: Show verbose messages.
-load session: Load settings from saved session.
-P port: Connect to port port.
-l user: Set remote username to user.
-batch: Disable interactive prompts.
-pw password: Set remote password to password. CAUTION: this will likely make the password visible to other users of the local machine (via commands such as `w‘).
-1: Force use of SSH protocol version 1.
-2: Force use of SSH protocol version 2.
-C: Enable SSH compression.
-i path: Private key file for authentication.

For a list of commands available inside psftp, type help at the psftp> prompt.

For more information on psftp it’s probably best to go and look at the manual on the PuTTY web page:

This man page isn’t terribly complete. See the above web link for better documentation.