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@xxxxxxx:/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... :)
