scp -r user@your.server.example.com:/path/to/foo /home/user/Desktop/ By not including the trailing “https://stackoverflow.com/” at the end of foo, you will copy the directory itself (including contents), rather than only the contents of the directory. From man scp (See online manual) -r Recursively copy entire directories
You can use Marcus’s answer (* wildcards) outside a case statement, too, if you use double brackets: string=’My long string’ if [[ $string == *”My long”* ]]; then echo “It’s there!” fi Note that spaces in the needle string need to be placed between double quotes, and the * wildcards should be outside. Also note … Read more
foo=”Hello” foo=”${foo} World” echo “${foo}” > Hello World In general to concatenate two variables you can just write them one after another: a=”Hello” b=’World’ c=”${a} ${b}” echo “${c}” > Hello World