WinSCP

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.09
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 20 April 2026
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NAME

WinSCP - SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, S3 and SCP client

 

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/bin/WinSCP[-Explorer|-Commander] [ -h | -i | -u | -V ]

WinSCP[-Explorer|-Commander] [ WinSCP_options ]

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

 

DESCRIPTION

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, S3 client and SCP client for Windows™.

It's main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer.

Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

For a description of the full functionality, see: https://winscp.net/eng/docs/.

WinSCP-Commander uses the commander interface.

WinSCP-Explorer, starts the explorer interface.

WinSCP shows the user interface as defined in the 'Options -> Preferences -> Environment -> Interface -> User Interface: (*) Commander ( ) Explorer' setting.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

-i
install the WinSCP command to the 'Desktop'.

-u
uninstall the WinSCP shortcut from the 'Desktop'.

-V
print WinSCP version.

WinSCP_options
for a description of the WinSCP command line options, see: https://winscp.net/eng/docs/commandline.

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
no error.

4
usage message displayed.

5
version message displayed.

 

FILES

etc/WinSCP.ini
configuration file of WinSCP, WinSCP-Commander and WinSCP-Explorer containing all settings and connection definitions.

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

wintoolsintro(1), config(1m), https://winscp.net/eng/docs/

 

NOTES

WinSCP has been developed by Martin Prikryl (https://winscp.net/).

Parts of the documentation has been extracted from https://winscp.net/.

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

WinSCP was developed by by Martin Prikryl and integrated into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports related to the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Christian Walther

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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Time: 19:42:05 GMT, April 21, 2026