On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 10:39, T. 'Nifty New Hat' Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:36:14AM +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 04:39, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
> > V simple question which someone google can't find. I can find using
> > google about ppl talking about comparing transfer speed using scp and
> > ftp and wget (over http) etc.. but for the life of me I do not have any
> > idea how to toggle scp such that it will display what the current
> > transfer speed it.
>
> scp uses encryption, so definitely does take a speed hit
>
> > All I get is
> >
> > File-transfer %sent |### 1111bytes ETA
>
> scp -r foo@bar.com:/myfiles .
I'm doing more like a
scp -r file-to-transfer ip-address:/path/to/copy/to
Doesn't work
>
> Will give me:
> file-being-transferred %sent size transfer_speed ETA
>
> Seems to work for me (I actually have such a job running now... :))
Works for me too. Rates for small files are often silly.
If you are transferring a file in. Do not ignore the ability to
do arithmetic in a second window.
ls -l; sleep 60; ls -l
Very Funny... :)