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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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Connecting to an SFTP server2m 52s
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SFTP commands6m 21s
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Using SFTP at the command line10m 2s
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Using the Cyberduck SFTP client for Windows and macOS5m 36s
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Using the WinSCP SFTP client for Windows4m 1s
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Using SFTP in the VS Code editor4m 53s
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Using SFTP in GoCoEdit on a mobile device2m 8s
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Working with files remotely2m 53s
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Managing a website with SFTP9m 8s
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Troubleshooting an SFTP connection2m 13s
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