How to determine scp Transfer Speed

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 10:39, T. 'Nifty New Hat' Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:36:14AM +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 04:39, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > 
> > > 	V simple question which someone google can't find. I can find using
> > > google about ppl talking about comparing transfer speed using scp and
> > > ftp and wget (over http) etc.. but for the life of me I do not have any
> > > idea how to toggle scp such that it will display what the current
> > > transfer speed it.
> > 
> > scp uses encryption, so definitely does take a speed hit
> > 
> > > All I get is 
> > > 
> > > File-transfer  %sent |###       1111bytes ETA
> > 
> > scp -r foo at bar.com:/myfiles .

I'm doing more like a 

scp -r file-to-transfer ip-address:/path/to/copy/to

Doesn't work
> > 
> > Will give me:
> > file-being-transferred  %sent  size  transfer_speed  ETA
> > 
> > Seems to work for me (I actually have such a job running now... :))
> 
> Works for me too.  Rates for small files are often silly.

> If you are transferring a file in.  Do not ignore the ability to
> do arithmetic in a second window.
> 
>     ls -l; sleep 60; ls -l


Very Funny... :)