$ 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 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>