To be more general, you should escape the *, and then it gets passed to the remote scp, which is smart enough to handle it (it actually uses the shell on the remote machine to do the globbing.)
If you're using older shells (real bourne shell, csh, etc.) then the unescaped * will cause an error (unless you 'set noglob' in csh). Bash is smart enough to realize that if no local globbing works, that it should just be passed on to the underlying program, for instance:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mrp]$ echo frobble* frobble* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mrp]$ echo f* fern.jpg ffjuser30 flash forAudrey forte4j fun [EMAIL PROTECTED] mrp]$ csh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo frobble* echo: No match. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ set noglob [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo frobble* frobble* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
Thus endeth the unix history lesson :-)
-- Mitch
On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 08:37 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've always wondered about this...
if i have a bunch of files on a remote host beginning with "backup", i can copy them to the local host using:
scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup* .
and it works. but why? doesn't the shell get to "*" first? i'd understand this working:
scp '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup*' .
but why does scp see the asterisk in the unquoted version?
pete
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