SCPFileTransfer doesn't support wildcard in file path? about sshj

[impoldo1]

Could someone please reopen this issue?

The native scp command does support remote file globs (wildcards). For example the following would copy all files ending in ".conf" from the remote /etc directory to the current working directory on localhost:

scp host:/etc/*.conf .

This issue was unfortunately closed with an example that only showed that the scp command will treat an escaped asterisk as a literal character, not a wildcard. That is no surprise.

The original reporter was asking about using un-escaped wildcards in remote paths, when trying to download a bunch of files at once from a remote host to the localhost, without having to iterate to a fixed list of (maybe not exactly known) remote file names.

It would be extremely useful if sshj could support the remote globs, too.

Thanks :)

[shikhar]

$ scp "localhost:test/\*.txt" test2/
scp: test/*.txt: No such file or directory