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Re: why does mget hang with SFTP

Subject: Re: why does mget hang with SFTP
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:00:35 -0400
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 01:17:41PM -0400, Justin Alcorn wrote:
Perhaps the file globbing has overrun the maximum command line length?

dcapellman@comcast.net wrote:
When using SFTP, does anyone have any thoughts as to why `mget *` hangs 
after transferring 230 or so files?  The connection is not lost and it 
just quits transferring files.  The files are about 10K or so and I am 
using OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 with Solaris 8.  TIA.

If you're transferring whole directories, you might wish to consider:

  tar cf - ./dir1 ./dir2 | ssh me@remote 'cd /somewhere && tar xvf -'

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