Using scp(1) to transfer multiple files

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In today’s instalment of things you already know, unless you don’t, you can use wildcards in scp(1) when transferring files:

$ scp user@host:file-* .

This came up during a customer call last year, where the engineer was running it a few times. On the backend it’s sftp(1) now anyway, as it probably should be.

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