Copying multiple files with SCP

I needed to copy several files from one remote host to another. To that end I decided to use scp, but if I simply write one "scp" command for each file I must provide the password each time I enter a command, besides having to repeat the command several times. Fortunately this can be done in a more efficient way. Indeed it is possible to use normal shell expansion, just make sure you use quotes to ensure that it isn’t parsed and expanded by the local shell instead of the remote one. Thus, the command should look like:

% scp me@host:"teste1.zip,teste2.zip,teste" .