At least for some use cases ...
* for i in $list_of_stuff; do scp -r $i &;done
I prefer rsync myself in most use cases. It may open multiple connections, I am not sure. But tends to be more efficient, and infiinitely more configurable.*



On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi,



scp seems to only allow single thread download when I want scp a

directory of files. Is there way to download multiple files

simultanously with scp? Or is there some similar tool that allow

simultaneous download?



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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Paulo Sampaio
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> Hi,
>
>
> You could tar the files and download them at once, better with gzip so you
> can speed up the transfer.
>
> tar -cvzf file.tar.gz /diretory/with/files

This will still use 1 thread, even through there is remaining
bandwidth. scp is not able to use it.

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Peng Yu wrote:
> scp seems to only allow single thread download when I want scp a
> directory of files. Is there way to download multiple files
> simultanously with scp? Or is there some similar tool that allow
> simultaneous download?

The normal way to do this is with rsync:

rsync -avz -e ssh dir/ user@host:~

But I think rsync still does it sequentially. I'm not aware of anything
that does it recursively and in parallel.

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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:


scp seems to only allow single thread download when I want scp a

directory of files. Is there way to download multiple files

simultanously with scp? Or is there some similar tool that allow

simultaneous download?
HiAre you transfering files between client and server?Maybe you can try FileZilla, a GUI file transfer application.

Meanwhile, it upload/download multiple files/directories sequentially. Also, it's highly configurable.
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Peng Yu wrote:
> scp seems to only allow single thread download when I want scp a
> directory of files. Is there way to download multiple files
> simultanously with scp? Or is there some similar tool that allow
> simultaneous download?
You can use multiple sources. e.g.

scp server:/path/to/file1 server:/path/to/file2 /path/to/target/

Unfortunately this only seem to work with passwordless login.

Greetings,
Björn

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