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{{Short description|Secure file-transfer software}}
{{About|the program that uses SSH File Transfer Protocol (as in OpenSSH)|protocols and programs with similar names|Secure file transfer protocol (disambiguation){{!}}Simple file transfer protocol}}
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{{Infobox Software 
| name                   = sftp
| logo                   = 
| screenshot             = 
| screenshot size        = 
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| developer              = The [[OpenBSD]] Project
| released               = 
| latest release version = 
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| repo                   = {{URL|https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/}}
| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system       = [[Unix]], [[Unix-like]], [[Microsoft Windows]]
| genre                  = [[Command (computing)|Command]]
| license                = [[BSD licenses#2-clause|BSD]], [[ISC license|ISC]], [[Public-domain software|public domain]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.openssh.com/}}
}}
'''{{mono|sftp}}''' is a [[command-line interface]] client [[Computer program|program]] to transfer files using the [[SSH File Transfer Protocol]] (SFTP), which runs inside the encrypted [[Secure Shell]] connection.

It provides an interactive interface similar to that of traditional command-line [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] clients.

One common implementation of {{mono|sftp}} is part of the [[OpenSSH]] project.<ref name="openssh">[https://man.openbsd.org/sftp sftp man page from the OpenSSH project]</ref> There are other command-line SFTP clients that use different names, such as [[lftp]], PSFTP and PSCP (from [[PuTTY]] package) and [[WinSCP]].