SSH/SCP are too slow. Use netcat instead.

Uses ssh to bootstrap a netcat (actually nc) pipe so you don't get limited by ssh. On my direct ethernet link at home I get ~70 MB/s compared to ~20 MB/s with scp.

You can transfer files to and from local and remote hosts or from a remote host to a different remote host (assuming they have a route to each other). Can also do local to local copies but it isn't particularly functional.

Multiple source paths are not currently supported.

Requires tar, basename, dirname, cat, nc and any dest/source host and additionally find on the source host and getopt on the controlling host.

If you have bash-completion installed you should be able to re-use scp's completion of remote files etc with complete -F _scp -o nospace fcp.

Usage: fcp [-c] [-p portno] [--] [srchost:]srcpath [[dsthost:]dstpath]

Copy files between hosts on a network. Uses tar and netcat (nc) for
transferring data and ssh for setting up the transport.
`dstpath` defaults to the current directory, use "-" to get a tarball on
stdout.

Options:
  -c         Tell tar to use gzip compression.
  -p portno  Port used by netcat. Defaults to 4365.

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