scp please see me.

Wildcard Copies

This trips me up everytime I attempt to copy files from a RaspberryPi to my MacBook.

When using a zsh shell, you must escape wildcard characters.

Good

> scp pi@123.45.67.89:/home/some/dir/\* ./data/

Bad

> scp pi@123.45.67.89:/home/some/dir/* ./data/

Source

Credit goes to this stack overflow response that I have stumbled towards dozens of times.