Manage Files Remotely with SFTP
Whereas ssh is about conncting 2 machine together through a terminal, sfpt is about sharing files.
SFTP stands for "Secure File Transfer Protocol".
SFTP allows for very similar abilities as ssh.
SFTP is active in Both Locations
When using sftp, one shell connects to another machine. In this case, sftp connects from one vm to another, both running on the host machine (the laptop). The Primary instance will sftp into the secondary instance:
# in the PRIMARY instance,
# sftp into secondary by the secondary ip
sftp horse@192.168.64.4Now, the primary shell can run commans against both the primary vm and the secondary vm. This might be the primary difference between sftp and ssh: ssh is only in the "remote" machine, whereas sftp is active in both:
# sftp into secondary
ubuntu@primary:~$ sftp horse@192.168.64.4
Connected to 192.168.64.4.
# notice the shell prefix changes to "sftp>"
sftp> ls
# prefix a command with an "l" for "local"
# this runs "ls" in the primary instance
sftp> lls
Home dock sauce snap
bad-command.txt errors.txt secret.txt this-file.txt
# in secondary
sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /home/horse
# in primary
sftp> lpwd
Local working directory: /home/ubuntu
sftp> Moving Files with get and put
# sftp into secondary
ubuntu@primary:~$ sftp horse@192.168.64.4
Connected to 192.168.64.4.
# notice the shell prefix changes to "sftp>"
# look at files in current machine working dir
sftp> lls
Home dock sauce snap
bad-command.txt errors.txt secret.txt this-file.txt
# move the this-file.txt to the other machine as that-file.txt
sftp> put this-file.txt that-file.txt
Uploading this-file.txt to /home/horse/that-file.txt
this-file.txt 100% 147 56.7KB/s 00:00
# GET a file from the remote
sftp> get that-file.txt got-file.txt
Fetching /home/horse/that-file.txt to got-file.txt
/home/horse/that-file.txt 100% 147 67.7KB/s 00:00