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Using the WinSCP SFTP client for Windows

Using the WinSCP SFTP client for Windows - FTP Tutorial

From the course: Learning SFTP

Using the WinSCP SFTP client for Windows

- [Instructor] Another graphical SFTP client that I use that I'd like to show you is WinSCP, which is available from winscp.net. WinSCP is free, and the name might be a little confusing at first. Earlier, I mentioned SCP, the secure copy feature of SSH that lets us write command line commands to copy files from one system to another. That's a feature that's offered by WINSCP as well, but WinSCP is also a very capable SFTP client, which is the part we'll focus on here, and it also has quite a few other useful features. From the website, I'll download the installer, and then I'll find it in my Downloads. I'll double-click it to run the installer. I can choose between two types of interface style. The one called Commander uses two panes as I mentioned earlier, local on the left and remote on the right. Explorer works like a file browser window or like Cyberduck that we saw earlier with one window representing the remote system. I'll keep the side-by-side version selected, and I'll move…

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