In comp.security.ssh Doug Capellman <dcapellman@comcast.net>:
> I have a unique problem when using `mget *` within a script. It transfers
> about 235 files of about 10K and then hangs. The connection isn't lost and
> we are using OpenSSH 3.7 on Solaris 8.

I'd check out if using 'rsync' or 'unison' through ssh shouldn't
offer a more reliable and perhaps even more efficient way of
securely copying data?

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