X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E941506.3080707@ltu.se> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:05:58 +0200 From: Bengt-Arne Fjellner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: scp wont allow wildcards References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 10/11/11 11:41 AM, zzapper wrote: >> rcp root@111.111.111.111:/var/html/www/scripts/*.php . >> >> reports "no Matches" >> >> I guess it's a setting on the remote server in .rhosts etc please advise > > drat I meant scp Try escaping the * either scp "root@111.111.111.111:/var/html/www/scripts/*.php" . or scp root@111.111.111.111:/var/html/www/scripts/\*.php . -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple