Globbing with scp

[Suvayu Ali]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> scp -r user at host:~/.emacs* .
>>
>> This copied over all my emacs related stuff from the remote machine
>> to my present working directory without any hicups. The directory
>> structures were also preserved, and I didn't need to escape the '*'.
> 
> You would have if you already had ~/.emacs* files present (at least,
> if you had files/folders that matched the ~/.emacs* glob differently
> on the localhost than you did on the remote).
> 

Yeah you are probably correct, because the directory I tried this in 
didn't have any files that would match the glob.

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