What is a decent SFTP command line client for Windows?

Question

Most Windows SFTP clients (such as FileZilla) seem to be based on a graphical interface. I need something that I can call from batch files.

Answer 1

pscp and psftp are very customizable (options) and light weight. Open source for download.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Answer 2

WinSCP has command line functionality:

c:\>winscp.exe /console /script=example.txt 

where the scripts are executed in example.txt .

See http://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation

See http://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation_advanced for details on how to use a scripting language such as the Windows / php / perl command interpreter.

FileZilla has a command line, but is limited only to opening a graphical interface with a predefined server, which is located in the site manager.

Answer 3

Cygwin + sftp / scp natrually

Answer 4

WinCCP can be called from a batch file:

 "C:\Program Files\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe" /console 

Examples of commands:

 option batch on option confirm off option transfer binary open sftp://username@hostname:port -hostkey="ssh-rsa " 

Answer 5

www.bitvise.com - sftpc is also a good command line client.

Answer 6

LFTP is great, but it is only Linux. Here you can find the Windows port here . Never tried it.

Achtunq, he uses Cygwin, but everything is included in the kit.

Answer 7

bitvise tunnelier works very well

Answer 8

This small application does the job for me. I could not find another CLI-based client that could access my IIS-based TLS / SSL FTP site: http://netwinsite.com/surgeftp/sslftp.htm

Answer 9

Filezilla is excellent, and it can support command line arguments .