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Gurunath
Gurunath

Reputation: 5

Equivalent of ftp commands prompt and hash in sftp

When I use ftp to connect to other server, after connecting we are using below commands.

  1. prompt
  2. hash

but now we have changed the process to sftp. If I gave the command prompt or hash after I connecting the server, it's saying

invalid command.

Could you please suggest what are the alternate commands for prompt and hash in sftp.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1125

Answers (1)

Martin Prikryl
Martin Prikryl

Reputation: 202167

(Assuming you are using OpenSSH sftp client)

  1. There's no equivalent to prompt. prompt command in ftp disables confirmation of transfers of individual files for wildcard commands like mget and mput. sftp never asks these confirmations. In other words, sftp behaves by default, like ftp with prompt does.

  2. hash makes ftp display progress of files transfers using # (hash) characters. sftp does not have an equivalent. In interactive mode, sftp displays transfer percentage. In non-interactive mode it does not display a progress (only final statistics).

Upvotes: 1

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