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Showing progress bar while using SFTP
Hey friends,
Daily I use "sftp" utility to upload some or the other stuff to my FTP server. Sometimes the size of the data that I upload is too large and I have to wait & wait & wait...
Is there a way I can make "sftp" display some progress bar or % (percentage) completion bar which will let me know the data transfer status?
I am seeing "sftp" man page but couldn't get much info.
This is a shot in the dark, and it may be way wrong, but i beleive the -v may show a bar. I believe it does when untaring a file, but I am not sure if it can be used in your case. I use a -zxvf when I untar. Again I may be completely wrong too.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could watch the progress while you're downloading a file with ftp? You can use the hash command to print out hash marks as you download a file:
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
As you can tell, ftp will print a hash mark for every 1024 bytes of data you download.
There is also a tick option.
ftp> tick
Tick counter printing on (10240 bytes/tick increment).
This will print something to this effect as you download a file:
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