Putty vs WinSCP

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Sara picture Sara · Jun 8, 2012 · Viewed 44.7k times · Source

I am new to both Putty and WinSCP. So can somebody tell me what the difference is between these two? And when should I use each.

Thanks.

Answer

Steve picture Steve · Jun 8, 2012

WinSCP is for file transfer to and from your server while PuTTY is used to interact with the server directly. Putty is just a command line interface to your server. WinSCP is a file transfer application using Secure FTP.

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