SSH File Transfer Protocol also called Secret File Transfer Protocol or Secure FTP, or SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over the network. In this post i will show how to transfer the files using sftp command on Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). Assumed that the following servers presented on your network.<\/p>\n
Transfer Files Between Servers using sftp Command<\/p>\n
rhel 6 = 192.168.2.43 –> Local working directory: \/root\/rhel6
\nCentOS 5.7 = 192.168.2.45 –> Remote working directory: \/root\/centos57<\/p>\n
1. From local working directory rhel6, sftp to centos57 (192.168.2.45) using root with password as below :<\/p>\n
\n[root@rhel6 ~]# sftp root@192.168.2.45\nConnecting to 192.168.2.45...\nThe authenticity of host '192.168.2.45 (192.168.2.45)' can't be established.\nRSA key fingerprint is 59:4a:13:85:f0:60:9d:c1:1d:49:95:c7:58:56:5d:4c.\nAre you sure you want to continue connecting (yes\/no)? yes\nWarning: Permanently added '192.168.2.45' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.\nroot@192.168.2.45's password:\n<\/pre>\n2. Change the directory on the local computer using lcd command. In this case i will Change the directory to \/root\/rhel6 :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> lcd \/root\/rhel6\n<\/pre>\n3. Show the current directory (present working directory) on the local computer. In this case local working directory is \/root\/rhel6 :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> lpwd\nLocal working directory: \/root\/rhel6\n<\/pre>\nDisplay local directory listing<\/p>\n
\nsftp> lls\ntesting.tar.gz\n<\/pre>\n4. Copy\/upload a file from the local computer to the remote computer using put command. This scenario consider equivalent with uploading process. At first, only testfile1 and testfile2 exist in \/root\/centos57. In this case, i will copy the testing.tar.gz from \/root\/rhel6 to \/root\/centos57 :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> put testing.tar.gz\nUploading testing.tar.gz to \/root\/centos57\/testing.tar.gz\ntesting.tar.gz 100% 169 0.2KB\/s 00:00\n<\/pre>\nDisplay remote working directory :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> pwd\nRemote working directory: \/root\/centos57\n<\/pre>\nDisplay remote directory listing :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> ls\ntestfile1 testfile2 testing.tar.gz\n<\/pre>\n5. Change the directory on the remote computer using cd command. In this case i will Change the directory to \/root\/centos57 :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> cd \/root\/centos57\n<\/pre>\n6. Show the current directory (present working directory) on the remote server. In this case remote working directory is \/root\/centos57 :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> pwd\nRemote working directory: \/root\/centos57\n<\/pre>\nDisplay remote directory listing :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> ls\ntestfile1 testfile2\n<\/pre>\n7. Copy\/download a file from the remote computer to the local computer using get command. This scenario consider same as downloading process. At first, only testing.tar.gz exist in \/root\/rhel6. In this case, i will copy the testfile1 from \/root\/centos57 to \/root\/rhel6 :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> get testfile1\nFetching \/root\/centos57\/testfile1 to testfile1\n\/root\/centos57\/testfile1 100% 5 0.0KB\/s 00:00\n<\/pre>\nDisplay local working directory :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> lpwd\nLocal working directory: \/root\/rhel6\n<\/pre>\nDisplay local directory listing :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> lls\ntestfile1 testing.tar.gz\nsftp>\n<\/pre>\n8. Display this help text :<\/p>\n
\nsftp> help\nAvailable commands:\nbye Quit sftp\ncd path Change remote directory to 'path'\nchgrp grp path Change group of file 'path' to 'grp'\nchmod mode path Change permissions of file 'path' to 'mode'\nchown own path Change owner of file 'path' to 'own'\ndf [-hi] [path] Display statistics for current directory or\n filesystem containing 'path'\nexit Quit sftp\nget [-P] remote-path [local-path] Download file\nhelp Display this help text\nlcd path Change local directory to 'path'\nlls [ls-options [path]] Display local directory listing\nlmkdir path Create local directory\nln oldpath newpath Symlink remote file\nlpwd Print local working directory\nls [-1aflnrSt] [path] Display remote directory listing\nlumask umask Set local umask to 'umask'\nmkdir path Create remote directory\nprogress Toggle display of progress meter\nput [-P] local-path [remote-path] Upload file\npwd Display remote working directory\nquit Quit sftp\nrename oldpath newpath Rename remote file\nrm path Delete remote file\nrmdir path Remove remote directory\nsymlink oldpath newpath Symlink remote file\nversion Show SFTP version\n!command Execute 'command' in local shell\n! Escape to local shell\n? Synonym for help\nsftp>\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SSH File Transfer Protocol also called Secret File Transfer Protocol or Secure FTP, or SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[1399,1536,1546,1682,1713,1715,1778],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ftp","tag-get-command","tag-linux","tag-linux-utilities","tag-put-command","tag-rhel","tag-rhel-6","tag-sftp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}