sftp_notes.md

SFTP cli notes

• extracted from Digital Ocean

Establishing a connection

sftp root@your_server_ip

Commands

• help or ?
• exit bye
• remote: ls, cd, mkdir, ln, rm, rmdir
• local: lls, lcd, lmkdir

Getting files

• get remoteFile
• We can copy the remote file to a different name by specifying the name afterwards: get remoteFile localFile
• get -r someDirectory

Uploading files

• put localFile
• put -r localDirectory