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However, when I run the script, all I get is an error saying 
"/var/www/html/*.htm" : file does not exist

Oddly, if I run the command the usual way from a prompt, it works fine (i.e.  
scp /var/www/html/*.htm jay at desktop.jayloden.com:/home/jay/) 

I'm somewhat stumped since Python is a new thing for me and this is just one 
of a few scripts to cut my teeth on.  Thanks for the help.

-Jay



The script is below:

#! /usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys
import pexpect

def scp(path, scp_to = """ 
jay at desktop.jayloden.com:/home/jay/www/jayloden/html/"""):
	'''does the actual scp work'''
	password = "password"
	command = "scp " + path + scp_to
	recurse_cmd = "scp -r " + path + scp_to
	
	if os.path.isdir(path):
		child = pexpect.spawn(recurse_cmd)
		child.expect('password:')
		child.sendline(password)
		child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
	
		print child.before
	
	else: 
		child = pexpect.spawn(command)
		child.expect('password:')
		child.sendline(password)
		child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
	
		print child.before
		
def main():
	scp("""/html/*.htm""")
	scp("""/html/*.jpg""", 
	""" jay at desktop.jayloden.com:/home/jay/www/jayloden/img/""")

		
main()


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