SFTP and mput * / mget *

[bk2007]

I use SFTP and the following commands to upload and download multiple files:
mput *
mget *

However, the above commands will skip uploading/downloading directories and subdirectories. Is there a command like mget or mput that allows downloading/uploading everything: files: directories, subdirectories at once.

Any help on this will appreciated.

Bernard

[likwid]

Probably a recursive option like scp has -r. But scp sucks rocks for this (I am guessing sftp might behave in a similar way), because it will recursively follow symlinks, even ones that will cause an infinite loop, and turn a 2 GB transfer into 12 GB and going before you know it. I just rsync, normally something like this:

rsync -avrP --progress user@fromsystem:/fromdir/ user@tosystem:/todir/

[likwid]

And AFAIK rsync tunnels through ssh if you use user@system:/path for filenames.

[bk2007]

Thanks for your help - I've started using rsync instead of SFTP. SFTP does not have the recursive option.