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## Establishing an SFTP connection  

~~~sh
sftp remote_username@server_ip_or_hostname
~~~

**Navigation** via der Standardbefehle `cd` und `ls`.  

## Downloading Files with the SFTP Command  

### Single File
~~~sh
get filename.zip
~~~

### Entire directory  
~~~sh
get -r remote_directory
~~~

### Resume aborted download  
~~~sh
reget filename.zip // reget -r remote_directory
~~~
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