How do I copy all files with scp in 1 command?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 15 May 2013, Neil Watson wrote:

> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 03:10:51PM -0400, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>  I'm mostly finished setting up a new desktop PC, after which an
>> ancient PC will go to the York Region ewaste centre.  One problem I ran
>> into whilst copying over files is that "dot-files", e.g. .bash_profile
>> and .bashrc are not copied over when I specify "*".  What I ended up
>> doing was...
>> 
>> scp * new_machine:/home/waltdnes/
>> scp \.* new_machine:/home/waltdnes/

   Include dot files in filename expansion with:

shopt -s dotglob

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