scp with zsh : no matches found

Question

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

Answer 1

Escape your wildcard :

scp hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-\*

Answer 2

or add this to your .zshrc

alias scp='noglob scp'

Answer 3

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/"

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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/

Answer 6

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.