scp with zsh : no matches found

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when I try scp over zsh, I get

scp hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-* user@192.168.1.154:Escritorio/Software/
zsh: no matches found: hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-*

the same command work in bash

score 174 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '13 at 12:14

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Escape your wildcard :

scp hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-\*

answered Jul 30 '13 at 12:14

yPhil

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I got the same error when trying to run a ruby resque worker with the `QUEUE=*` option. Thanks for the fix! – mogramer Aug 29 '14 at 02:51
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Thanks for solution... This seems like an example of zsh being too smart for its own good... – Owen Oct 13 '16 at 14:25
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Worked for me as well. Weird though! – roopunk Jul 16 '17 at 06:39
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\ does the trick on macos – Alp Altunel Apr 09 '20 at 14:53

score 36 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '16 at 15:30

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or add this to your .zshrc

alias scp='noglob scp'

answered Sep 22 '16 at 15:30

Per Hurtig

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It was so annoying to escape brackets when using ipv6, this helped. – Nasir Sep 08 '21 at 00:18
not it says: `*: No such file or directory` – alper Mar 08 '23 at 11:04

score 11 · Answer 3 · answered May 24 '17 at 14:15

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Too late for the party, but..

You can escape the string with quotes too

scp "hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-*" "user@192.168.1.154:Escritorio/Software/"

answered May 24 '17 at 14:15

waghcwb

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered May 04 '12 at 13:26

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Unset the NOMATCH option so that zsh leaves the text alone instead of complaining about a glob failure.

answered May 04 '12 at 13:26

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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Hi, how to unset that? in `.zshrc` ? – GoingMyWay Jun 08 '16 at 04:34

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 01 '12 at 18:58

This post has a nice solution to this by using the url-quote-magic plugin to automatically escape globs in scp commands. To enable it, add the following to your ~/.zshrc:

# Automatically quote globs in URL and remote references
__remote_commands=(scp rsync)
autoload -U url-quote-magic
zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic
zstyle -e :urlglobber url-other-schema '[[ $__remote_commands[(i)$words[1]] -le ${#__remote_commands} ]] && reply=("*") || reply=(http https ftp)'

When you type a glob character (like *) as part of a remote path in an scp or rsync command, zsh will automatically add a blackslash in front, like this:

scp hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-\* user@192.168.1.154:Escritorio/Software/

This is a nasty but nice trick. – Attila O. Nov 05 '13 at 01:22 — Attila O., Nov 05 '13 at 01:22

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 06 '21 at 17:29

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I used to alias no "noglob scp" in my MacOS but with some updates I had always to type \scp at the beginning of the command so wildcards were accepted.

Changed to alias scp="\noglob scp" and it all work, with or without wildcards on command line.

answered Mar 06 '21 at 17:29

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