Globbing with scp

[Todd Zullinger]

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).

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