> I guess no one bothered to look at scp, or as one of the other comments here notes, scp is overwhelmingly used with a server one already trusts. It's the lat

> I guess no one bothered to look at scp, or as one of the other comments here notes, scp is overwhelmingly used with a server one already trusts. It's the latter for me. It's not just wildcards. You can use any server-side shell code you want to specify the files as if you're writing in a command argument[1]. At least, I find this tremendously useful. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912188