Re: Re: grabbing .lic files

[hardburn]

How? SCP doesn't provide a way to get directory listings, and (IIRC) doesn't do filename globbing. I can see this being done with SFTP, but not SCP.

Update: Never mind. I am an idiot.

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[Limbic~Region]

hardburn,
This type of thing is perfect for scp. Especially if you have keys between trusted hosts so that you do not need to enter a password (or put it in a file in the clear):

for host in host1 host2 host3 host4
do
    scp $host:/etc/vx/elm/*.lic /home/user/admin/keys
done

scp most certainly supports globbing. It can also recursively copy a directory and keep the same ownership/file permissions of files and a bunch of other great things.

The other alternative is to set up a generic Perl script that you can pass command line parameters to:


• Local directory
• Remote directory
• File list
• Username/Password
• etc

  To me, it seems easier to have the key authentication set up with scp so that I can do this on the command line on the fly. There are times when I can't because the host is not local or trusted, and have set up a script that is maleable enough that I do not have to edit it before each use.

  Cheers - L~R

[jasonk]

Which is irrelevant, as this script gets a listing of the files locally, and then retrieves those same filenames from the remote machine, there isn't any directory listing or filename globbing being done via ftp anyway.

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[dga]

scp does glob files or rather the shell on the other end globs files. You need to escape the meta characters from your local shell of course.

scp other.host:\*.lic .