Sftp command usage information

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
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hello

how do we get detailed information of an sftp command?

for example when you type help on sftp, you get the available commands and their brief descriptions. What if you want to get detailed usage information, for example when you want to know what the command line options do..?

in unix, we do

$man command

..and it gives all details of the command. how do we accomplish this in sftp.

thanks

2

Write the word help when you are login as a sftp client.

3

Have you tried:

man sftp

on you UNIX system before invoking sftp ?

4

yes, I know I can find the information I need on Unix with that command.

I was trying to do that inside sftp.. I just got the impression that I could find the same info inside sftp.. because in ftp you can do

help [command]

and it will print informative message about that command. obviously, you can't do that in sftp.

thanks anyways..

5

That's how far you can go with the sftp client you are using.

The ftp you are using is another different client (program) and the developers decided to code a bit friendlier help at the prompt, but that does not guarantee that every ftp client would have the same feature, nor that the sftp client would, neither. That's why you must read the documentation before you use it.

6

This is not what Don Cragun asked...