PSFTP differs from PSCP in the following ways:
\b PSCP should work on virtually every SSH server. PSFTP uses the
-new SFTP protocol, which is a feature of SSH 2 only. (PSCP will also
-use this protocol if it can, but there is an SSH 1 equivalent it can
+new SFTP protocol, which is a feature of SSH-2 only. (PSCP will also
+use this protocol if it can, but there is an SSH-1 equivalent it can
fall back to if it cannot.)
\b PSFTP allows you to run an interactive file transfer session,
When you run a batch script in this way, PSFTP will abort the script
if any command fails to complete successfully. To change this
-behaviour, you can use the \c{-be} option (\k{psftp-option-be}).
+behaviour, you can add the \c{-be} option (\k{psftp-option-be}).
\S{psftp-option-bc} \c{-bc}: display batch commands as they are run
The \c{-bc} option alters what PSFTP displays while processing a
-batch script. With the \c{-bc} option, PSFTP will display prompts
-and commands just as if the commands had been typed at the keyboard.
-So instead of seeing this:
+batch script specified with \c{-b}. With the \c{-bc} option, PSFTP
+will display prompts and commands just as if the commands had been
+typed at the keyboard. So instead of seeing this:
+\c C:\>psftp fred@hostname -b batchfile
\c Sent username "fred"
\c Remote working directory is /home/fred
\c Listing directory /home/fred/lib
you might see this:
+\c C:\>psftp fred@hostname -bc -b batchfile
\c Sent username "fred"
\c Remote working directory is /home/fred
\c psftp> dir lib
\S{psftp-option-be} \c{-be}: continue batch processing on errors
-When running a batch file, this option causes PSFTP to continue
-processing even if a command fails to complete successfully.
+When running a batch file, this additional option causes PSFTP to
+continue processing even if a command fails to complete successfully.
You might want this to happen if you wanted to delete a file and
didn't care if it was already not present, for example.
\S{psftp-cmd-chmod} The \c{chmod} command: change permissions on
remote files
-PSFTP allows you to modify the file permissions on files on the
-server. You do this using the \c{chmod} command, which works very
-much like the Unix \c{chmod} command.
+PSFTP allows you to modify the file permissions on files and
+directories on the server. You do this using the \c{chmod} command,
+which works very much like the Unix \c{chmod} command.
The basic syntax is \c{chmod modes file}, where \c{modes} represents
a modification to the file permissions, and \c{file} is the filename
-to modify. For example:
+to modify. You can specify multiple files or wildcards. For example:
\c chmod go-rwx,u+w privatefile
-\c chmod a+r publicfile
-\c chmod 640 groupfile
+\c chmod a+r public*
+\c chmod 640 groupfile1 groupfile2
The \c{modes} parameter can be a set of octal digits in the Unix
style. (If you don't know what this means, you probably don't want
the only permissions left are the ones for the file owner). \c{u+w}
adds write permission for the file owner.
-\b The second example: \c{a+r} adds read permission for everybody.
+\b The second example: \c{a+r} adds read permission for everybody to
+all files and directories starting with \q{public}.
In addition to all this, there are a few extra special cases for
Unix systems. On non-Unix systems these are unlikely to be useful:
\S{psftp-cmd-del} The \c{del} command: delete remote files
-To delete a file on the server, type \c{del} and then the filename:
+To delete a file on the server, type \c{del} and then the filename
+or filenames:
\c del oldfile.dat
+\c del file1.txt file2.txt
+\c del *.o
+
+Files will be deleted without further prompting, even if multiple files
+are specified.
+
+\c{del} will only delete files. You cannot use it to delete
+directories; use \c{rmdir} for that.
The \c{rm} command works exactly the same way as \c{del}.
\c mkdir newstuff
+You can specify multiple directories to create at once:
+
+\c mkdir dir1 dir2 dir3
+
\S{psftp-cmd-rmdir} The \c{rmdir} command: remove remote directories
To remove a directory on the server, type \c{rmdir} and then the
-directory name:
+directory name or names:
\c rmdir oldstuff
+\c rmdir *.old ancient
+
+Directories will be deleted without further prompting, even if
+multiple directories are specified.
Most SFTP servers will probably refuse to remove a directory if the
directory has anything in it, so you will need to delete the
contents first.
-\S{psftp-cmd-ren} The \c{ren} command: rename remote files
+\S{psftp-cmd-mv} The \c{mv} command: move and rename remote files
+
+To rename a single file on the server, type \c{mv}, then the current
+file name, and then the new file name:
+
+\c mv oldfile newname
+
+You can also move the file into a different directory and change the
+name:
+
+\c mv oldfile dir/newname
-To rename a file on the server, type \c{ren}, then the current file
-name, and then the new file name:
+To move one or more files into an existing subdirectory, specify the
+files (using wildcards if desired), and then the destination
+directory:
-\c ren oldfile newname
+\c mv file dir
+\c mv file1 dir1/file2 dir2
+\c mv *.c *.h ..
-The \c{rename} and \c{mv} commands work exactly the same way as
-\c{ren}.
+The \c{rename} and \c{ren} commands work exactly the same way as
+\c{mv}.
\S{psftp-cmd-pling} The \c{!} command: run a local Windows command
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