Todd Zullinger wrote:
Suvayu Ali wrote:scp -r user 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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