wildcards work?

[bfleming-ciena]

def get(self, remote_path, local_path='',
recursive=False, preserve_times=False):
"""
Transfer files from remote host to localhost

    @param remote_path: path to retreive from remote host. since this is
        evaluated by scp on the remote host, shell wildcards and

Then call.

scp.get('/var/tmp/user-action_._', ".")

[jbardin]

Looks like that doc needs to be updated. Shell special characters are quoted by default now, with the exception of ~. You can change the behavior of the client by setting SCPClient.sanitize

[bfleming-ciena]

Thanks! Got it.

[panjacek]

So how should I use wildcards exactly? some examples would be nice.
Lets say I want to fopy the files which has the following pattern:
/var/tmp/data_pattern_*

[remram44]

You can create an SCPClient that doesn't escape filenames, and then copy:

scp = SCPClient(ssh.get_transport(),
                sanitize=lambda x: x)
scp.get('/var/tmp/data_patterm_*')