Re: Re: grabbing .lic files

~~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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Re: Re: Re: grabbing .lic files
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Mar 28, 2003 at 16:37 UTC

hardburn

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

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Re: Re: Re: grabbing .lic files
by jasonk (Parson) on Mar 28, 2003 at 16:32 UTC

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.

We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!

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Re: Re: Re: grabbing .lic files
by dga (Hermit) on Mar 28, 2003 at 17:54 UTC

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 .

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