Dave Feustel wrote:
> There appear to be missing concluding brackets in the output of man
> scp: (F9)
> =================
> NAME
> scp - secure copy (remote file copy program)
>
> SYNOPSIS
> scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
> ...
> [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2
>
> ==================
>
> The missing right brackets make me wonder how to transmit
> bunches of files without having to specify the password(s)
> multiple times.
Huh? The brackets are in matched pairs AFAICT.
> Is globbing possible? If so, could someone provide an example? So
> far none of my experiments attempting to transfer multiple files in
> a single scp command have worked.
It might help if you showed a little of what you tried. Globbing when
the files are on the localhost is easy:
$ scp *.diff remote:/tmp
Going in the other direction requires you to quote the glob characters
to prevent them from being expanded by your local shell:
$ scp remote:'/tmp/*.diff' .
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