El cliente lftpse puede usar tanto para FTP como para SFTP. Tiene un mvcomando que puede usar para realizar un movimiento en el servidor remoto. Aquí hay un buen tutorial sobre cómo usarlo, titulado: Unix: mover archivos con flexibilidad con lftp .
Si observa el lftpuso, notará un mvcomando.
$ lftp
lftp :~> help
!<shell-command> (commands) alias [<name> [<value>]] attach [PID]
bookmark [SUBCMD] cache [SUBCMD] cat [-b] <files> cd <rdir>
chmod [OPTS] mode file... close [-a] [re]cls [opts] [path/][pattern] debug [<level>|off] [-o <file>]
du [options] <dirs> exit [<code>|bg] get [OPTS] <rfile> [-o <lfile>] glob [OPTS] <cmd> <args> help [<cmd>]
history -w file|-r file|-c|-l [cnt] jobs [-v] kill all|<job_no> lcd <ldir>
lftp [OPTS] <site> ln [-s] <file1> <file2> ls [<args>] mget [OPTS] <files>
mirror [OPTS] [remote [local]] mkdir [-p] <dirs> module name [args] more <files>
mput [OPTS] <files> mrm <files> mv <file1> <file2> [re]nlist [<args>]
open [OPTS] <site> pget [OPTS] <rfile> [-o <lfile>] put [OPTS] <lfile> [-o <rfile>] pwd [-p]
queue [OPTS] [<cmd>] quote <cmd> repeat [OPTS] [delay] [command] rm [-r] [-f] <files>
rmdir [-f] <dirs> scache [<session_no>] set [OPT] [<var> [<val>]] site <site-cmd> source <file>
torrent [-O <dir>] <file|URL>... user <user|URL> [<pass>] wait [<jobno>] zcat <files> zmore <files>
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