Hello Gurus,

I am kind of new to shell scripting , is there any way we can secure copy only certain type of files without knowing the name of the sub directory

ex: i have a directory called dir1 which changes its name based on the date and under that we have another sub directory which can ab , bc or cd and in those directories i i have pdf files which in need to get from source to destination.

Thank you in advance

You don't mean something like this?

Exactly That is how i need

This may not work if the number of files is sufficiently large. I'd go with

Hello n_i,
I need to copy from a remote site , will this work

Yes, if you don't do a pull from the remote host but rather a push. For that, you use the "find ..." as command for ssh.

Thank you guys, really appreciate your help

need one more help, when you do ssh, how are we going to put the find and scp part.

Thanks in advance

Another idea is to use ssh to get a list of files (via a find at the remote system), then scp to get those files:

hello stolze,
i am getting this error, command substitution: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'

Hello Stolze, Thank you very very much, really appreciate your help, double quote was missing, is there any way that i can give the password only once when i connect using ssh, it is asking every time bcoz of the loop