If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing. Nice with public key auth for uploading files.

to_tmp

#!/bin/bash

TARGET_HOST="example.org"
TARGET_DIR="webapps/upload_static"
TARGET_WEB="http://example.org/tmp"

declare -a uploaded
count=0

while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
        fname="$1"
        bname="$(basename "$fname")"
        dname="$(dirname "$fname")"                                                                                                                                                                                                            

        if [ ! -e "$fname" ]; then                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                echo "$bname SKIPPED, doesn't exist."                                                                                                                                                                                          
                shift                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
                continue                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
        fi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

        size=$(du -s "$fname" | cut -d" " -f1)                                                                                                                                                                                                 
        ((size=size/10))                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
        echo -n "$bname $size / 0"                                                                                                                                                                                                             
        # Fucking magic                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
        tar -C "$dname" -c -z "$bname" | ssh $TARGET_HOST tar -C $TARGET_DIR -x -z --checkpoint=10 --checkpoint-action=exec="bash\ -c\ set\|grep\ TAR_CHECKPOINT\|cut\ -d=\ -f2\|xargs\ echo\ -n\ '\r'\"$bname\"\ $size\ /"                    

        # Old line for reference                                                                                                                                                                                                               
        #tar -C "$dname" -c -z "$bname" | ssh $TARGET_HOST tar -C $TARGET_DIR --checkpoint=10 --checkpoint-action=dot -x -z                                                                                                                    

        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
                ssh $TARGET_HOST chmod -R go+r $TARGET_DIR/"$bname" 2>/dev/null                                                                                                                                                                
                echo -e "\r$bname $size / $size OK"                                                                                                                                                                                            
                uploaded[$count]="$bname"                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                ((count++))                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
        else                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                echo -e "\r$bname $size / $size ERROR"                                                                                                                                                                                         
        fi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

        shift                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
done                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

echo ""

if [ "$count" == "0" ]; then
        echo "No files uploaded!"
        exit 0
fi

((last=${#uploaded[@]}-1))
for i in $(seq 0 $last); do
        echo "--> $TARGET_WEB/${uploaded[$i]// /%20}"
done