On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 01:17:41PM -0400, Justin Alcorn wrote: > Perhaps the file globbing has overrun the maximum command line length? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd /somewhere && tar xvf -'
