Issues with SFTP

[Markus Friedl]

> Things consider problems with sftp software
> 
>   - sftp manually first time to accept the fingerprint and anytime software
> is updated on host.

this is a problem with your setup. don't blame sftp.

>   - no ascii mode only binary

what is "ascii" ?

>   - no verbose or indication of bytes transfered (you would do an ls after
> sftp is done)

sftp is a unix tool, so it usually cries only on errors.

>   - no mput or mget (this may be a show stopper) but could script could
> generate itself with all the filenames takes coding.

use get * or put *

-m