What's the best free scriptable SFTP client for windows?

Question

What's the best free scriptable SFTP client for windows?

I've looked at WinSCP and Filezilla. Winscp seems quite buggy (click here), and filezilla doesn't seem very scriptable.

Any suggestions?

Basically what i want to do is: from a scheduled task, log onto a remote server, pull any files across, and then delete them from the remote server.

Answer 1

Cygwin. You can combine the power of command line sftp with the power of BASH scripting. All that, in Windows!

Answer 2

You could check out SecureFX by VanDyke. http://www.vandyke.com/products/securefx/

or MKS Toolkit for Sys Admins http://mkstoolkit.com/products/tk/ds_tkother.asp

Answer 3

You can use the scp client that comes with putty pscp. You can use pscp on the command line like scp in a linux command line.

Answer 4

Not free, but look at edtFTPnet/PRO for a comprehensive script engine that supports SFTP on Windows.

Here's a sample script:

# Sample SFTP script 
set remotehost=edtmobile
set user=javaftp
set password=javaftp
set protocol=sftp
set localdir=D:\work\tmp

# connect to the server
open

# change dir
cd remote/test

# put the local file test.txt to the server as mytest.txt
put test.txt mytest.txt

# disconnect
close