Re: Get with *.* are downloading also Directories
It's a Windows convention (Or maybe a backward compatibility hack with DOS).
In Windows, the
Try
Actually WinSCP is made explicitly to mimic this convention, it's not any side-effect nor bug. See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/file_mask#exceptions
If you want to avoid downloading subdirectories, see:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_script_non_recursive
In Windows, the
.
is not a really part of the file name, just a separator between name and extension. In most cases using name
and name.
refers to the same file (name
without an extension).
Try
dir *.*
on Windows command line. It behaves identically to WinSCP.
Actually WinSCP is made explicitly to mimic this convention, it's not any side-effect nor bug. See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/file_mask#exceptions
If you want to avoid downloading subdirectories, see:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_script_non_recursive