No wildcard expansions found

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

Hi,

I am using the scp command to get some files from a remote server

scp user1@db1:path/Z*.lst .

where path is not my home directory and when I try it is giving me

warning: No wildcard expansions found for '/prod/dbload/Z*.lst'.

Any help/work around on this is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sunitha.

[Rodney Hills]

You should put the path in quotes. example-

scp "user1@db1:path/Z*.ls" .

The way you have it, the local shell is doing the wildcard expansion.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Sunitha,

I am not getting the same behaviour with my 3.8.1p1 client. I would try escaping the wild character or putting it in quotes. For ex.,

scp "user1@db1:/prod/dblocal/Z*.lst" or
scp user1@db1:/prod/dblocal/Z\*.lst

-Sri

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

Thanks for your responses.

I did try using quotes and it is giving me this warning message now.

scp "user1@db1:path/Z\*.lst" .

warning: Cannot open source file db1:path/Z\*.lst

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Dont use quotes and \ together. Either of them will do it for you.

Thanks
Prashant

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

I am still getting the same warning message no wildcard expansions found.

Thanks,
Sunitha.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Sunitha,

What version of ssh are you using?. I would try with HP's from software.hp.com.

-Sri

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

Thanks everyone for your time and help.

Sri it's
SSH Version 2.0.12.

Thanks,
Sunitha.

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Something wrong you are doing in my openion as message should be different otherwise..

..
Thanks
Prashant

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

May be. But the same command was working properly few weeks.

I was wondering if this was a bug.

Thanks,
Sunitha.

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi sunitha,
This should work.
# scp "user1@db1:/..../Z*.lst"

Regards,

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Might be it is not a good advice..just try changing to k-shell once.

Thanks
Prashant

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Try copying in debugging mode using -v option and send the output here.

scp -v "user@hostname://Z*.lst"

Thanks
Prashant

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

thanks everyone.

Prashant,

scp -v user1@db1:path/Z*.lst .

warning: Development-time debugging not compiled in.
warning: To enable, configure with --enable-debug and recompile.
Development-time debugging not compiled in.
To enable, configure with --enable-debug and recompile.
debug: connecting to db1...
debug: entering event loop
debug: ssh_client_wrap: creating transport protocol
debug: ssh_client_wrap: creating userauth protocol
debug: Host key found from the database.
debug: Ssh2AuthPubKeyClient/authc-pubkey.c:226: ssh_client_auth_pubkey_send_signature
debug: Ssh2AuthPubKeyClient/authc-pubkey.c:262: ssh_client_auth_pubkey_send_signature: reading path/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a
debug: Ssh2/ssh2.c:306: client_authenticated
debug: DISPLAY not set; X11 forwarding disabled.
warning: No wildcard expansions found for '/prod/dbload/Z*.lst'.

Thanks,
Sunitha.

[RAC_1]

How about --
scp "user1@db1:path/Z[a-zA-Z]*.lst" .

Anil

[RAC_1]

Or better --
scp user1@db1:path/Z[a-zA-Z]*.lst .

Anil

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

Thanks for your response Anil. But I am getting the same error.

scp user1@db1:path/Z[a-zA-Z]*.lst .
warning: No wildcard expansions found for 'path/Z[a-zA-Z]*.lst'.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Did you upgrade/reinstall ssh recently?. I don't see any reason why it worked before and not anymore without any changes.

It looks like a commercial version. I believe it's the ssh's inability to deal with wildcards. If so, you will need to work with the vendor. I use my own compiled version of 3.8.1p1 from openssh.org and it can work with wild-chars just fine.

You can try HP's openssh if yours are HP systems and it may impact your ssh setup.

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1471AA


-Sri

[RAC_1]

You must have checked this. But are there any file as /path/Z*.lst in that dir??

Anil

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

What happen if you just mention one of the file name with path to it. Does it get copied..
How many files are there and how big..

Thanks
Prashant

[RAC_1]

echo "`cp user1@db1:path/Z*.lst .`"

What does above return???

Anil

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

Thanks everyone for your time and quick responses. thank you so much.

Anil,

I have checked that the files exist under the specific path and also I have the necessary permissions. Thanks for checking on this.

Prashant,

I did try coping just one file and that was successful. I have more than 100 files. Some of them are very small in Kb and some of the files may be 10 of them are around a Meg. Also when I copying from my home directory wild card works fine.

Example : scp user1@db1:$HOME/* . -- Works Fine

Really appreciate your time and help on this.

Thanks,
Sunitha.

[Sunitha Chandramohan]

Anil,

Unfortunately I am getting the following message when I try

echo "`cp user1@db1:path/Z*.lst .`"
cp: cannot access user1@db1:path/Z*.lst: No such file or directory

Thanks,
Sunitha.

[RAC_1]

Correction in my last post.

echo "`scp user1@db1:path/Z*.lst .`"

I did cp, which should have been scp.

Anil

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Can you try sftp instead.

sftp user@server:/path/
mget Z*.lst

Just a try if it gives an error. and if it works..then also u r done.

Thanks
Prashant