NAME

       psftp - interactive SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) client

SYNOPSIS

       psftp [options] [user@]host

DESCRIPTION

       psftp  is  an  interactive text-based client for the SSH-based SFTP (secure file transfer)
       protocol.

OPTIONS

       The command-line options supported by psftp are:

       -V     Show version information and exit.

       -pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys and exit, to aid in verifying
              new files released by the PuTTY team.

       -b batchfile
              Use specified batchfile.

       -bc    Output batchfile commands.

       -be    Don't stop batchfile processing on errors.

       -v     Show verbose messages.

       -load session
              Load settings from saved session.

       -P port
              Connect to port port.

       -proxycmd command
              Instead of making a TCP connection, use command as a proxy; network traffic will be
              redirected to the standard input and output of command. command must  be  a  single
              word, so is likely to need quoting by the shell.

              The special strings %host and %port in command will be replaced by the hostname and
              port number you want to connect to; to get a literal % sign, enter %%.

              Backslash escapes are also supported, such as sequences like \n being replaced by a
              literal  newline;  to  get  a literal backslash, enter \\. (Further escaping may be
              required by the shell.)

              (See the main PuTTY manual for full details of  the  supported  %-  and  backslash-
              delimited  tokens,  although  most  of  them  are  probably not very useful in this
              context.)

       -l user
              Set remote username to user.

       -batch Disable interactive prompts.

       -no-sanitise-stderr
              By default, PSFTP will filter control characters from the  standard  error  channel
              from  the  server,  to prevent remote processes sending confusing escape sequences.
              This option forces the standard error channel to not be filtered.

       -pwfile filename
              Open the specified file, and use the first line of text read from it as the  remote
              password.

       -pw password
              Set  remote  password  to  password.  CAUTION:  this  will likely make the password
              visible to other users of the local machine (via commands such as `ps' or `w'). Use
              -pwfile instead.

       -1     Force use of SSH protocol version 1.

       -2     Force use of SSH protocol version 2.

       -ssh-connection
              Force  use  of the `bare ssh-connection' protocol. This is only likely to be useful
              when connecting to a psusan(1) server, most likely with an absolute path to a Unix-
              domain socket in place of host.

       -ssh   Force  use of the SSH protocol. (This is usually not needed; it's only likely to be
              useful if you  need  to  override  some  other  configuration  of  the  `bare  ssh-
              connection' protocol.)

       -4, -6 Force use of IPv4 or IPv6 for network connections.

       -C     Enable SSH compression.

       -i keyfile
              Private  key file for user authentication. For SSH-2 keys, this key file must be in
              PuTTY's PPK format, not OpenSSH's format or anyone else's.

              If you are using an authentication agent, you can also specify a  public  key  here
              (in RFC 4716 or OpenSSH format), to identify which of the agent's keys to use.

       -noagent
              Don't try to use an authentication agent.

       -agent Allow  use of an authentication agent. (This option is only necessary to override a
              setting in a saved session.)

       -no-trivial-auth
              Disconnect from any SSH server which accepts  authentication  without  ever  having
              asked  for  any  kind  of password or signature or token. (You might want to enable
              this for a server you always expect to challenge you, for instance  to  ensure  you
              don't  accidentally  type  your  key  file's  passphrase  into a compromised server
              spoofing PSFTP's passphrase prompt.)

       -hostkey key
              Specify an acceptable host public key. This option may be specified multiple times;
              each  key  can  be  either  a fingerprint (SHA256:AbCdE..., 99:aa:bb:..., etc) or a
              base64-encoded blob in OpenSSH's one-line format.

              Specifying this option overrides automated host key  management;  only  the  key(s)
              specified  on  the  command-line  will  be  accepted  (unless  a saved session also
              overrides host keys, in which case those will be added to), and the host key  cache
              will not be written.

       -sshlog logfile

       -sshrawlog logfile
              These  options  make  psftp  log  protocol details to a file. (Some of these may be
              sensitive, although by default an effort is made to suppress obvious passwords.)

              -sshlog logs decoded SSH packets and other events  (those  that  -v  would  print).
              -sshrawlog additionally logs the raw encrypted packet data.

       -logoverwrite
              If  PSFTP  is  configured  to  write to a log file that already exists, discard the
              existing file.

       -logappend
              If PSFTP is configured to write to a log file that already exists, append  new  log
              data to the existing file.

COMMANDS

       For a list of commands available inside psftp, type help at the psftp> prompt.

MORE INFORMATION

       For more information on psftp it's probably best to go and look at the manual on the PuTTY
       web page:

       https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

BUGS

       This man page isn't terribly complete. See the above web link for better documentation.