Progress bar for scp command

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Is there any way to display a progress bar while copying from server to local (or vice versa) using scp?

score 142 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 03 '17 at 04:15

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I don't think that this can be done with scp. Last time I needed something like this i.e. progress shown, I used rsync instead. It shows progress in a bar-like manner. See if it works for you.

You will need to use the --progress option of rsync. You can use the following command:

rsync -r -v --progress -e ssh user@remote-system:/address/to/remote/file /home/user/

edited Sep 03 '17 at 04:15

Zanna

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answered May 20 '11 at 11:55

binW

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score 126 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '17 at 07:50

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The -v switch works fine.

Example:

5% 9232KB 357.5KB/s 07:48 ETA

answered Jan 18 '17 at 07:50

Jay Brunet

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score 33 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 08 '18 at 13:03

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As of 2018, progress and ETA are shown by default and could be disabled by -q

answered Dec 08 '18 at 13:03

Milan Kerslager

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score 6 · Answer 4 · answered May 20 '11 at 11:44

I don't know how to do this in a command line. I'm sure it's possible but there is a graphical method for doing this.

Nautilus (the default file browser in Ubuntu) can mount ssh/sftp servers. They act like a local filesystem after that and you can copy files around like you normally would. And you get the usual progress bar that you would with a normal copy.

Look under the File menu for Connect to server...

Progress bar for scp command

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