[Novalug] scp double failure

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 30 May 2009, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:

> Jane, you ignorant slut! Never, EVER type .*! Use ".??*" instead.

 	Who is this Jane??

> Do you know what you just did?
>
> One of the things that ".*" expands to is "..". So if you were 
> in your home directory attempting to recursively copy all your 
> dotfiles somewhere, well guess what? You just copied EVERYONE's 
> home directory instead, not to mention your own twice, plus you 
> copied your intended dotfiles a third time.

 	Sorry -- I don't understand a word of that. Fedora seems, 
often if not always, to forbid me to copy other people's files.

> Of course, the pattern ".??" misses files like ".x" or ".1", 
> but you will learn to avoid those names just like you avoid 
> spaces in filenames.

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