scp and noglob

scp and noglob

[Jens Kubieziel]

Hi,

I often use scp to transfer multiple files. Assume I want to transfer
all *.c-files, I enter:
scp $SERVER:*.c .
Zsh tries to expand *.c and I have to insert a 'noglob'. Is there a way
to tell zsh to don't expand all filenames which are on the serverside?

Thanks for hints
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Jens Kubieziel                                   http://www.kubieziel.de
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Anton Bruckner

Re: scp and noglob

[Jay Guerette]

The easiest way is to simply escape the '*'

scp $SERVER:\*.c


On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:56:03 +0100, Jens Kubieziel
<maillist@kubieziel.de> wrote:
> I often use scp to transfer multiple files. Assume I want to transfer
> all *.c-files, I enter:
> scp $SERVER:*.c .
> Zsh tries to expand *.c and I have to insert a 'noglob'. Is there a way
> to tell zsh to don't expand all filenames which are on the serverside?

Re: scp and noglob

[Philippe Troin]

Jens Kubieziel <maillist@kubieziel.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I often use scp to transfer multiple files. Assume I want to transfer
> all *.c-files, I enter:
> scp $SERVER:*.c .
> Zsh tries to expand *.c and I have to insert a 'noglob'. Is there a way
> to tell zsh to don't expand all filenames which are on the serverside?

alias scp='noglob command scp' 

maybe?
Phil.

Re: scp and noglob

[David Gómez]

Hi Philippe ;),

> > I often use scp to transfer multiple files. Assume I want to transfer
> > all *.c-files, I enter:
> > scp $SERVER:*.c .
> > Zsh tries to expand *.c and I have to insert a 'noglob'. Is there a way
> > to tell zsh to don't expand all filenames which are on the serverside?
> 
> alias scp='noglob command scp' 
> 
> maybe?

But sometimes you need globbing in the client part, so you'll have to
expand (tab-tab) the list to make the command line to work.

regards,

-- 
David Gómez                                      Jabber ID: davidge@jabber.org

Re: scp and noglob

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Jens Kubieziel wrote:

> scp $SERVER:*.c .
> Zsh tries to expand *.c and I have to insert a 'noglob'. Is there a way
> to tell zsh to don't expand all filenames which are on the serverside?

If you have zsh 4.2.x, try the url-quote-magic widget that's included in
the Functions/Zle directory in the distribution.  Load it like this:

  autoload -U url-quote-magic
  zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic

Then trick it into treating any hostname as a URL scheme when the command 
name is "scp", by doing this (note placement of single/double quotes):

  zstyle -e :urlglobber url-other-schema \
    '[[ $words[1] == scp ]] && reply=("*") || reply=(http https ftp)'

(Read the comments in the function file for an explanation of why the 
context is ":urlglobber", if you care.)

Then just type your scp command and watch what happens.