[vox-tech] shell question: globbing and command arguments

[vox-tech@lists.lugod.org]

i've always wondered about this...

if i have a bunch of files on a remote host beginning with "backup", i
can copy them to the local host using:

   scp p@remote.host:backup* .

and it works.  but why?  doesn't the shell get to "*" first?  i'd
understand this working:

   scp 'p@remote.host:backup*' .

but why does scp see the asterisk in the unquoted version?

pete

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