On Mon 03 Nov 03, 8:59 AM, Mitch Patenaude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
i didn't know that, but it's consistent in what i see with scp. so if i have "backup.*" in my local directoy, my example wouldn't work? i'll check that out. thank you! pete > 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 -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech