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<title>sftp</title>
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<author>&Ferdinand.Gassauer; &Ferdinand.Gassauer.mail;</author>
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<para><acronym>SFTP</acronym> is a Secure file transfer protocol.
<command>sftp</command> is an interactive file transfer program,
similar to ftp, but it performs all operations over an encrypted
<command>ssh</command> transport.  It may use many of the features of
<command>ssh</command>, including public key authentication and
compression.</para>

<para> See the manual: <ulink url="man:/sftp">sftp</ulink>.
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