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Name: Deepti
Date: October 7, 2003 at 03:44:16 Pacific
OS: W2k
CPU/Ram: 800MHz/256
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Is it possible to start mutiple ftp sessions from a shell script ?The sessions should run in parallel
i need to ftp 20 20mb files n wish to establish about 8 parallel sessions.



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Name: David Perry
Date: October 7, 2003 at 05:26:55 Pacific
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If you are sending all these files between the same two computers, multiple ftp sessions will not gain you much if anything, however answering you question, you can spawn multiple child processes from the shell by making them run as background tasks.

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