multiple downloads with scp

[Bjoern Voigt]

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