Cyberduck is an

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client for

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and SFTP,

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, and

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storage (

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, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2 and

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), available for

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and

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(as of version 4.0) licensed under the

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. Cyberduck is written in

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and C# using the

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user interface framework on macOS and

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on Windows. It supports FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS), using AUTH TLS as well as

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. The user interacts with the

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(GUI), including file transfer by drag and drop and notifications via

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. It is also able to open some files in external

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s. Cyberduck includes a bookmark manager and supports Apple's

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and Bonjour networking. It supports multiple languages including English, Catalan, Czech, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Welsh.

Cyberduck CLI

The Cyberduck creator also provides a version for the

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(CLI), called duck, available for Windows, macOS and

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. It has its own website a
duck.sh
The program can be used as FTP and SFTP-client, for operations with different cloud services

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Portable Cyberduck
— packaged as portable application for external drive. (Mac only) Free FTP clients SSH File Transfer Protocol clients MacOS Internet software Data synchronization MacOS-only free software Cloud storage {{free-software-stub

Cyberduck CLI

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