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What's the best way to perform a parallel copy on Unix?

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I routinely have to copy the contents of a folder on a network file system to my local computer. There are many files (1000s) on the remote folder that are all relatively small but due to network overhead a regular copy takes a very long time (10 mins). I believe it's because the files are being co…

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cp remote_folder/* ~/local_folder/

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If you have GNU Parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ installed you can do this: You can install GNU Parallel simply by: Explanation of commands, arguments, and options parallel --- Fairly obvious; a call to the parallel command build and e…

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