$ sftp remote-system
If the connection succeeds, a confirmation message and prompt are displayed.
Password: password
If the sftp interface accepts your password, it displays a confirmation message and the (sftp>) prompt.
You can now use any of the commands that are supplied by the sftp interface, including help. The principal commands are summarized in Figure 5, Table 5, Essential sftp Commands.
sftp> bye
This sftp session was established to connect to the remote system host1:
$ sftp host1 Connecting to host1. Password: password sftp>