# termscp
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<p align="center">~ A feature rich terminal file transfer ~</p>
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<p align="center">Current version: 0.19.1 11/11/2025</p>
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## About termscp 🖥
Termscp is a feature rich terminal file transfer and explorer, with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/Kube/S3/WebDAV. So basically is a terminal utility with an TUI to connect to a remote server to retrieve and upload files and to interact with the local file system. It is **Linux**, **MacOS**, **FreeBSD**, **NetBSD** and **Windows** compatible.
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## Features 🎁
- 📁 Different communication protocols
- **SFTP**
- **SCP**
- **FTP** and **FTPS**
- **Kube**
- **S3**
- **SMB**
- **WebDAV**
- 🖥 Explore and operate on the remote and on the local machine file system with a handy UI
- Create, remove, rename, search, view and edit files
- ⭐ Connect to your favourite hosts through built-in bookmarks and recent connections
- 📝 View and edit files with your favourite applications
- 💁 SFTP/SCP authentication with SSH keys and username/password
- 🐧 Compatible with Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MacOS
- 🐚 Embedded terminal for executing commands on the system.
- 🎨 Make it yours!
- Themes
- Custom file explorer format
- Customizable text editor
- Customizable file sorting
- and many other parameters...
- 📫 Get notified via Desktop Notifications when a large file has been transferred
- 🔭 Keep file changes synchronized with the remote host
- 🔐 Save your password in your operating system key vault
- 🦀 Rust-powered
- 👀 Developed keeping an eye on performance
- 🦄 Frequent awesome updates
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## Get started 🚀
If you're considering to install termscp I want to thank you 💜 ! I hope you will enjoy termscp!
If you want to contribute to this project, don't forget to check out our [contribute guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).
If you are a Linux, a FreeBSD or a MacOS user this simple shell script will install termscp on your system with a single command:
```sh
> ❗ MacOs installation requires [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/), otherwise the Rust compiler will be installed
while if you're a Windows user, you can install termscp with [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/):
```ps
choco install termscp
```
NetBSD users can install termscp from the official repositories.
```sh
pkgin install termscp
```
Arch Linux users can install termscp from the official repositories.
```sh
pacman -S termscp
```
For more information or other platforms, please visit [termscp.veeso.dev](https://termscp.veeso.dev/get-started.html) to view all installation methods.
⚠️ If you're looking on how to update termscp just run termscp from CLI with: `(sudo) termscp --update` ⚠️
### Requirements ❗
- **Linux** users:
- libdbus-1
- pkg-config
- libsmbclient
- **FreeBSD** or, **NetBSD** users:
- dbus
- pkgconf
- libsmbclient
### Optional Requirements ✔️
These requirements are not forced required to run termscp, but to enjoy all of its features
- **Linux/FreeBSD** users:
- To **open** files via `V` (at least one of these)
- *xdg-open*
- *gio*
- *gnome-open*
- *kde-open*
- **Linux** users:
- A keyring manager: read more in the [User manual](docs/man.md#linux-keyring)
- **WSL** users
- To **open** files via `V` (at least one of these)
- [wslu](https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu)
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## Support the developer ☕
If you like termscp and you're grateful for the work I've done, please consider a little donation 🥳
You can make a donation with one of these platforms:
[](https://ko-fi.com/veeso)
[](https://www.paypal.me/chrisintin)
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## User manual 📚
The user manual can be found on the [termscp's website](https://termscp.veeso.dev/user-manual.html) or on [Github](docs/man.md).
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## Upcoming Features 🧪
See [Milestones](https://github.com/veeso/termscp/milestones)
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## Contributing and issues 🤝🏻
Contributions, bug reports, new features and questions are welcome! 😉
If you have any question or concern, or you want to suggest a new feature, or you want just want to improve termscp, feel free to open an issue or a PR.
An **appreciated** contribution would be a translation of the user manual and readme in **other languages**
Please follow [our contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)
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## Changelog ⏳
View termscp's changelog [HERE](CHANGELOG.md)
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## Powered by 💪
termscp is powered by these awesome projects:
- [bytesize](https://github.com/hyunsik/bytesize)
- [crossterm](https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm)
- [edit](https://github.com/milkey-mouse/edit)
- [keyring-rs](https://github.com/hwchen/keyring-rs)
- [kube](https://github.com/kube-rs/kube)
- [open-rs](https://github.com/Byron/open-rs)
- [pavao](https://github.com/veeso/pavao)
- [remotefs](https://github.com/veeso/remotefs-rs)
- [rpassword](https://github.com/conradkleinespel/rpassword)
- [self_update](https://github.com/jaemk/self_update)
- [ratatui](https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui)
- [tui-realm](https://github.com/veeso/tui-realm)
- [whoami](https://github.com/libcala/whoami)
- [wildmatch](https://github.com/becheran/wildmatch)
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## Gallery 🎬
> Termscp Home
> Bookmarks
> Setup
> Text editor
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## License 📃
termscp is licensed under the MIT license.
You can read the entire license [HERE](LICENSE)