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Copy with scp can be weird
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| SCP is kinda weird. | |
| To copy all files in 3 levels of nested directories ending in foo.bar, such as 123foo.bar & 456foo.bar: | |
| scp USER@SERVER:'/path/to/some\ directory/*/*/*foo.bar' ./ | |
| Notice the directory name has a space in it so we escape with a backslash. | |
| An alternative to the escape character would be double quotes within the single quotes, around the non wild part of the source path: | |
| scp USER@SERVER:'"/path/to/some directory"/*/*/*foo.bar' ./ | |
| The destination of ./ means local directory. |
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SCP is kinda weird.
To copy all files in 3 levels of nested directories ending in foo.bar, such as 123foo.bar & 456foo.bar:
scp USER@SERVER:'/path/to/some\ directory/*/*/*foo.bar' ./Notice the directory name has a space in it so we escape with a backslash.
An alternative to the escape character would be double quotes within the single quotes, around the non wild part of the source path:
scp USER@SERVER:'"/path/to/some directory"/*/*/*foo.bar' ./The destination of ./ means local directory.