X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:08:50 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: scp wont allow wildcards Message-ID: <20111011100850.GA27311@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Oct 11 09:41, 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 Doesn't matter, it's a PEBKAC. The *local* shell tries to expand the * since you gforgot to quote. Try scp root@111.111.111.111:'/var/html/www/scripts/*.php' . Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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