On Sep 12, 12:59am, der.hans wrote:

> Am 11. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Kurt Granroth so:
> =

> > This problem is due to the interaction with the shell.  When you spec=
ify a
> > wildcard on the command line, the shell will try to expand it out BEF=
ORE
> > sending it to the command.  So you may be intending the '*' to be pas=
sed to
> > scp as-is.. but it's not, it's expanded out (to nothing in your case)=
 first.
> =

> That is true in most cases, but if it encounters a colon it won't expan=
d the
> glob as it presumes that's for the remote machine.

I'm not convinced of this.  Here's a counterexample (using bash as the
shell):

    ocotillo:testdir$ touch foo foo:bar foo:foo
    ocotillo:testdir$ echo foo:*
    foo:bar foo:foo

Kevin