Basic commands for sftp in linux.

linux_sftp.txt

Author: Aaron Phalen | Twitter: @aaron_phalen | Email: [email protected]

Summary:
Basic commands for secure file transport protocol (sftp) in linux.  Sftp 
runs on the same port as ssh (22), and has similar secure encryption.  Secure
file transport protocol is useful for quickly uploading or downloading files 
from a linux server with the two verbs get and put, respectively.  Generally,
sftp is a quick and lightweight alternative to an third part client 
file transport protocol (ftp) such as FileZilla.

Basic Usage:
 1. Login:
   (i) sftp <username>@<ip-address>:<filedirectory> --> secure file transport login as username at ip address
                                                        and change directory to filedirectory.
 2. Navigation:  
   (i) pwd --> show remote present working directory (remote)
   (ii) lpwd --> show present working directory (local)
   (iii) ls --> list files remote directory (remote)
   (iv) lls --> list files present direcory (local)   
   (v) cd --> change remote directory (remote)
   (vi) lcd --> change directory (local)
   (vii) mkdir --> make remote directory (remote)
   (viii) lmkdir --> make directory (local)

 3. Transport:
   (i) put <filename> <destination-directory> --> upload file from current local directory 
                                                  to remote destination directory
   (ii) get <filename> --> download file from current local directory
   (iii) mget <filename1>, <filename2> --> download multiple files
   (iv) mput <filename1>, <filename2> --> upload multiple files
   (v) mget *.py --> can use wildcards: download all python files

  4. Close:
    (i) ! --> will exit us out of sftp