get

Use get to download a file from the SFTP server and save it locally.

Syntax

get remote-file [ local-file ]

Views

SFTP client view

Predefined user roles

network-admin

mdc-admin

Parameters

remote-file: Specifies the name of a file on the SFTP server.

local-file: Specifies the name for the local file. If you do not specify this argument, the file will be saved locally with the same name as the file on the SFTP server.

Examples

# Download file temp1.c and save it as temp.c locally.

sftp> get temp1.c temp.c
Fetching /temp1.c to temp.c
/temp.c                                                 100% 1424     1.4KB/s   00:00