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Comment #1 posted on 2017-05-21T16:42:38Z by Jonathan Kulp

What about with SCP?

Hi Dave,

This was a really excellent show! Just the kind of stuff that I wish I had known for about the last 10 years. I tried something after listening to this that worked wonderfully as long I was long as I was just doing a list command, but when I tried the same thing using secure copy to get the same list of arguments, it didn't work.

What I wanted to do was to push all MP3 and OGG files in a given directory over to my server in a single command, excluding the HTML and markdown files in the same directory.

The following command worked perfectly to **list** all of the MP3s and OGGs: "ls *(*.mp3|*.ogg)", but when I tried the same arguments with SCP it failed. Have you tried doing these kinds of expansions with secure copy?

Comment #2 posted on 2017-05-21T18:08:45Z by Dave Morriss

SCP is a bit weird

Hi Jon,

Glad you enjoyed the show.

To look into this I did the usual thing of creating a directory 'scptest' and making files in it:

$ touch scptest/{a,b}{00..10}{a..z}.{dat,txt}

I could copy selected files TO a remote directory:

$ scp scptest/*(???y.txt|???y.dat) dave@rpi5:test/

However, on rpi5 I couldn't copy FROM the other machine.

I did find a solution, but it's quite long for a comment, and I'm not 100% sure I understand it. I tried it and it did copy the files I specified.

Ken would suggest a show on the subject, but perhaps if I pointed you to the link I found it might do the job :-)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103058/exclude-characters-for-scp-filepattern

See what you think.

Actually, I shunt files around a lot between systems, but I often tend to use 'rsync'. However, that's a whole other subject.

Comment #3 posted on 2017-05-22T08:44:32Z by Dave Morriss

SCP without extended globs

It didn't occur to me at the time to try this (on rpi5, pulling files off a remote machine):

$ scp dave@desktop:'scptest/a??w.{txt,dat}' .
dave@desktop's password: ...

This works. The quotes prevent there being two scp invocations with associated password prompts.

Comment #4 posted on 2017-05-22T11:12:48Z by Jonathan Kulp

Details, details...

Aha! As always the devil is in the details. This last comment you left gave me the hint I needed. I was putting the asterisk in the wrong place and also using parentheses instead of curly braces. The following command works just like I want:

scp *.{mp3,ogg}
jonserver:~/destination/dir/

Thanks, Dave!

Comment #5 posted on 2017-05-22T11:29:36Z by Dave Morriss

TMTOWTDI

"There's more than one way to do it" - Larry Wall (actually he was talking about Perl, but it works here)

I'm glad I helped you to get where you wanted to be (even though I realise I wasn't quite answering your original question).

Having researched this and thought about it a bit I started putting together a brief(ish) HPR show about it.

Comment #6 posted on 2017-05-22T12:26:21Z by Jonathan Kulp

Ken is smiling

Dave, somehow I suspected when I asked whether this worked with secure copy that it would end up becoming another show from you. You're the best!

Comment #7 posted on 2017-05-24T04:52:46Z by clacke

scp brace expansion??!

Dave, I had no idea scp would do brace expansion on the server side. That's quite unexpected, and quite the discovery!

I tried it with rsync, and rsync *also* supports it. That made me suspicious.

As I feared, it seems to mean it runs the server side of rsync (and of scp) through the shell. Testing confirms it. If I want to (explicitly) copy files with spaces in the names, the quoting nightmare starts. :-(

So what started out as a happy discovery just turned into another disappointment in how broken our software is.

All this time, I had assumed that rsync started a server with no specific arguments, and then communicated over the rsync protocol which files to get. I guess I've been lucky all these years and avoided explicitly naming weird file names.

Comment #8 posted on 2017-05-24T10:09:52Z by Dave Morriss

scp is a bit of a hack!!

Hi clacke.

I had been messing with scp using the -v option which generates a lot of information. You can see it connecting via ssh then, if the original command was:

scp -v dave@rpi4:'scptest/*.{mp3,ogg}' .

it sends across:

scp -v -f scptest/*.{mp3,ogg}

where the quotes prevent local expansion and the (undocumented) -f option in the command marks it as running on the remote end.

I don't know how this mechanism deals with names with spaces and so forth, but I imagine it's nasty. It needs some experiments. My ideas for a "brief" show about this subject look doomed to be "l o n g" :-)

I think rsync will talk to a remote server (never used it) but I'd expect it would need to exist before the transfer.

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