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Wildcards are resolved by the shell, not by scp. So given your example,
the shell will first take a*.TXT and find all files that match. For
instance, let's say it finds files named apple.TXT, alice.TXT and
alleycat.TXT. It will then replace your wildcard expression with the
matching filenames, so it will run:
scp apple.TXT alice.TXT alleycat.TXT b
This means the scp program will get 4 parameters. It will interpret all
parameters except the last one as files to copy. The last one will be
assumed to be the destination. Since there's more than one file to
copy, it'll expect 'b' to be a directory, and will copy all of the files
there. (Whereas, if there was only one matching file, 'b' could either
be a filename or a directory -- and if b doesn't already exist, an
filename would be assumed.)
Make sense?
On 8/16/2013 2:04 PM, John McKee wrote:
What does scp do given the following:
scp a*.TXT b
where there can be multiple files that start with the letter a
and
b is a directory
John McKee
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