rsync - Aug 2003 - globbing doesn't work locally

This is on rsync v2.4.5 on RedHat 7.3.

If I do something like

  rsync ... 'somehost:/path/to/files.*' /local/path

it works fine, but if I do

  rsync ... '/local/path/to/files.*' somehost:/path/to

globbing fails, yielding an error about being unable to find a file
named 'files.*':

  link_stat /local/path/to/files.* : No such file or directory
  rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578)

This strikes me as Not A Good Thing, i.e., file globbing should work
even inside literals.

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:37:21PM -0700, Rob McMillin
wrote:
> This is on rsync v2.4.5 on RedHat 7.3.
> 
> If I do something like
> 
>   rsync ... 'somehost:/path/to/files.*' /local/path
> 
> it works fine, but if I do
> 
>   rsync ... '/local/path/to/files.*' somehost:/path/to
> 
> globbing fails, yielding an error about being unable to find a file
> named 'files.*':
> 
>   link_stat /local/path/to/files.* : No such file or directory
>   rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578)
> 
> This strikes me as Not A Good Thing, i.e., file globbing should work
> even inside literals.
Globbing of command-line arguments is the responsibility of the shell.

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