scp with resume

I often use scp to download big files from my desktop. The problem is that with scp you can not resume broken downloads… but rsync can!!

Hence I have the following alias in my .bashrc:
alias scpres="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"
which support the same syntax of scp.

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~ by svidoli on May 12, 2010.

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