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SFTP commands

SFTP commands - FTP Tutorial

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SFTP commands

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- [Scott] We can see all of the commands that are available once we're inside the SFTP shell by typing either help or just the question mark character for a summary. I'll type help and press Enter. I'll scroll to the top of this listing and let's take a brief look at some of the most important commands. Many of them work like their counterparts in a regular shell or command line environment, though there are some that are specific to SFTP. The first one in the list is bye, short for goodbye, and that command will disconnect us from the SFTP session when we're done using it. We'll use that later, but not right now. The next is cd. This command will change the directory on the server that we're working inside of. Remember that FTP and also SFTP use a model where we can work with both the remote system and the local system at the same time. So if we looked on this list a little bit more, we'll find lcd, which stands for local change directory, for changing the directory we're working on…

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