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 …