Syncronizing directories from a remote directory to local directory or vice-versa can be done using rsync.

Be default, rsync doesn't show a progress bar while transfering files. 

Rsync with progress bar 

Use the below syntax in order for rsync to display a progress bar:

in this case rsync used some arguments:
-r, --recursive             recurse into directories
-v, --verbose               increase verbosity
-e, --rsh=COMMAND           specify the remote shell to use (which in my case it was ssh)
--progress              show progress during transfer

So basically, put --progress after your rsync command or you can create an alias like this:

You can add this alias to your ~/.profile and everytime you will be using rsync command, the progress bar will be shown durring file transfer.

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