Re: [vox-tech] shell question: globbing and command arguments

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From: Bill Kendrick <nbs@sonic.nMAPSet>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:08:30 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:58:22AM -0800, p@dirac.org wrote:
> so if i have "backup.*" in my local directoy, my example wouldn't work?
> i'll check that out.

No, your example was:

  scp p@remote.host:backup* .

So if you have files named, for example:

  p@remote.host:backup-me
  p@remote.host:backup234

those'll end up being noticed by bash.  Highly unlikely that you'd have files
with those names, though. ;)


-bill!
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