termscp

~ A feature rich terminal file transfer ~

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Developed by @veeso

Current version: 0.19.1 2025-12-20

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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.

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:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSLf "https://git.io/JBhDb" | sh

❗ MacOs installation requires Homebrew, otherwise the Rust compiler will be installed

while if you're a Windows user, you can install termscp with Chocolatey:

choco install termscp

NetBSD users can install termscp from the official repositories.

pkgin install termscp

Arch Linux users can install termscp from the official repositories.

pacman -S termscp

For more information or other platforms, please visit termscp.veeso.dev 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
• WSL users
  • To open files via V (at least one of these)
    • 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:

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User manual 📚

The user manual can be found on the termscp's website or on Github.

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Upcoming Features 🧪

See 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

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Changelog ⏳

View termscp's changelog HERE

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Powered by 💪

termscp is powered by these awesome projects:

• bytesize
• crossterm
• edit
• keyring-rs
• kube
• open-rs
• pavao
• remotefs
• rpassword
• self_update
• ratatui
• tui-realm
• whoami
• 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