Wildcards with the zsh shell
While trying to scp some files I knew existed on the remote system, I ran into an issue using a wildcard.
Using the zsh shell and using a wildcard in scp fails:
scp tom@testbox:~/test*.txt
zsh: no matches found: tom@testbox:~/test*.txt
However, the files do exist:
ssh testbox
tom@testbox:~$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 15 May 7 09:27 test1.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 21 May 7 09:27 test2.txt
The files exist, and I have the correct permissions, however, zsh shell doesn't work out of the box with wildcards.
To fix this:
setopt nonomatch
scp tom@testbox:~/test*.txt .
test1.txt 100% 15 23.1KB/s 00:00
test2.txt 100% 21 30.4KB/s 00:00
To make this fix permanent:
echo "setopt nonomatch" >> ~/.zshrc
References
Stack Exchange - Using wildcards in commands with zsh https://superuser.com/questions/584249/using-wildcards-in-commands-with-zsh/740728#740728