multiple downloads with scp

[Hal Burgiss]

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 at 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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> Peng
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Hal
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