Use .bashrc without breaking sftp

Try doing this instead

if [ "$SSH_TTY" ]
then
   source .bashc_real
fi

Mike's answer will probably work. But it's worth pointing out that you can accomplish this carefully selecting which startup files to put the verbose stuff in. From the bash man page:

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.

The sftp/scp tools start an interactive non-login shell, so .bashrc will be sourced. Many distributions source .bashrc from .bash_profile or vice versa, so it can get confusing. A good trick for testing the cleanliness of your login environment is to ssh in with a command, which simulates the same way scp/sftp connect. For example: ssh myhost /bin/true will show you exactly what scp/sftp sees when they connect.

A simple demo:

insyte@mazer:~$ echo "echo Hello from .profile" > .profile
insyte@mazer:~$ echo "echo Hello from .bashrc" > .bashrc

sazerac:~ insyte$ ssh mazer /bin/true
Hello from .bashrc
sazerac:~ insyte$

insyte@mazer:~$ rm .bashrc

sazerac:~ insyte$ ssh mazer /bin/true
sazerac:~ insyte$

The first test will cause scp/sftp/rsync etc. to break. The second version will work just fine.