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Asked: 2026-06-13T11:51:56+00:00

I want to do something like this in bash: scp me@server:/data/stuff/*/needthis.txt ./?/needthis.txt Where that

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I want to do something like this in bash:

scp me@server:/data/stuff/*/needthis.txt ./?/needthis.txt

Where that ? in the command will be whatever was matched by the *.

My problem is there’s a bunch of directories out of which I want to copy one file that’s the same name in each directory, and I want to preserve the name of the directory they came from, but I don’t just want to copy the entire “stuff” folder because there are other files in these directories that are hundreds of MB which I don’t want to waste time downloading.

Can I do this easily?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Perhaps rsync is what you need:

    rsync -a --exclude='*' --include=needthis.txt me@server:/data/stuff/. .
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