On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:30:59PM -0600, Mike Hicks wrote: > You > can generally specify all files with just `*', though that often doesn't > pick up files with a dot at the beginning. Therefore, you may have to > additionally specify `.*', but that occasionally also picks up the `..' > directory, which can be bad.. Two options: 1) To get all files in a directory, use scp -r host:/path/to/directory/ /path/to/destination This isn't scp-specific; most utilities recognize either -r or -R to mean 'recursive'. 2) To match all files starting with a dot, but not . or .., use .[^.]* (well, not entirely perfect - this will miss files starting with two dots, but I've never seen one of those in the wild) -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss