multiple downloads with scp

[Avi Greenbury]

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 at 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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Avi