On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Kristleifur Daðason <kristlei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:37 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfr...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >>> Hi guys and gals, >>> i wonder if there is any chance to implement wildcards (*) into >>> the functionality of fish when using scp? >>> this works in bash: >>> $ scp usern...@host.com:~/Whatever/*.pdf . >>> This command will transfer all files in ~/Whatever/ ending with .pdf to >>> the working directory. >>> If i run the same command in fish i get the following: >>> ~> scp un...@host.com:~/Whatever/*.pdf . >>> fish: Warning: No match for wildcard “un...@host.com:~/Whatever/*.pdf”. >>> The command will not be executed. >>> scp un...@host.com:~/Whatever/*.pdf . >>> ^ >>> I asked around in #fish and SanskritFritz and adisbladis explained to me >>> it's because bash is checking my files on the remote site or something. (i >>> didn't quit understand) >>> My question is: >>> Would this be possible to implement in fish? >>> Br >>> Sebastian Thör [....] > What you want is to escape the wildcard, e.g. tell Fish to not process it > but rather pass it on to the process your're starting. This works here > because scp accepts wildcards. > I don't remember the syntax, but it's roughly like this: > scp user@server:dir/file\* localdir > or > scp user@server:"dir/file\*" localdir > or > scp "user@server:dir/file\*" localdir [...]
You can either escape the wildcard or quote it: scp user@server:dir/file\* locadlir or scp user@server:dir/"file*" localdir or scp user@server:dir/file"*" localdir or scp "user@server:dir/file*" localdir Cheers, Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
