Globbing with scp

[Suvayu Ali]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Dave Feustel wrote:
>> There appear to be missing concluding brackets in the output of man
>> scp: (F9)
>> =================
>> NAME
>>      scp - secure copy (remote file copy program)
>>
>> SYNOPSIS
>>      scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
>> ...
>>  [[user@]host1:]file1 ...  [[user@]host2:]file2
>>
>> ==================
>>
>> The missing right brackets make me wonder how to transmit
>> bunches of files without having to specify the password(s)
>> multiple times.
> 
> Huh?  The brackets are in matched pairs AFAICT.
> 
>> Is globbing possible? If so, could someone provide an example? So
>> far none of my experiments attempting to transfer multiple files in
>> a single scp command have worked.
> 
> It might help if you showed a little of what you tried.  Globbing when
> the files are on the localhost is easy:
> 
>    $ scp *.diff remote:/tmp
> 
> Going in the other direction requires you to quote the glob characters
> to prevent them from being expanded by your local shell:
> 
>     $ scp remote:'/tmp/*.diff' .
> 
> 

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 '*'.

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Suvayu

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