After finding that using scp to copy stuff over my local network (and before finding out about hpn-ssh) I wrote this icky script to get better performance copyi

After finding that using scp to copy stuff over my local network (and before finding out about hpn-ssh) I wrote this icky script to get better performance copying moving stuff around: https://github.com/toofar/fcp https://github.com/toofar/fcp It just wraps ssh+netcat+tar. The ssh connection is just used to setup the netcat (actually nc) connection like in mosh. It doesn't have much dependencies (although it can use pv if installed on the local machine) and so should work on most platforms (didn't work on android last I checked, but I think I know why). It's a pretty ugly script (in particular errors are not propagated back to the terminal and backgrounding pv can lead to offset output) but it works and can even use scp's bash_completion script for completion on a remote filesystem.