FAQ: How to SFTP from my user's home directory?

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-Updated: January 29, 2011 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
+Updated: March 7, 2011 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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   3.17 How do I list the root dir of an FTP server?
   3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response?
   3.19 How do I get HTTP from a host using a specific IP address?
+  3.20 How to SFTP from my user's home directory?
 
  4. Running Problems
   4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.
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     curl --header "Host: www.example.com" http://127.0.0.1/
 
+  3.20 How to SFTP from my user's home directory?
+
+  Contrary to how FTP works, SFTP and SCP URLs specify the exact directory to
+  work with. It means that if you don't specify that you want the user's home
+  directory, you get the actual root directory.
+
+  To specify a file in your user's home directory, you need to use the correct
+  URL syntax which for sftp might look similar to:
+
+    curl -O -u user:password sftp://example.com/~/file.txt
+
+  and for SCP it is just a different protocol prefix:
+
+    curl -O -u user:password scp://example.com/~/file.txt
+
 
 4. Running Problems