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SCP or SFTP client for Windows: WinSCP


Install

Download from the official WinSCP website and install

WinSCP Installer

Short Tutorial

Simple Winscp Tutorial

Winscp - what is it?

WinSCP is a Windows GUI implementaion of secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) that is based on SSH. So you can use your SSH host, port and login to transfer files b/w host and local machine.

WinSCP provides a visual interface to the directory structures of remote machines and allows transfer (upload/download), editing and common file operations.

Login using SSH login info.

WinSCP Login page

Uploading and Downloading:

And thats it. There are more functions in this client that user can explore on their own and customize on need basis.