Paramiko scp copy from remote machine regular expression

Question

Is there way i can copy remote files that ends with name \"output\" using paramiko scp.

I have below code, which copies only if i provide full path or exact file nam

Answer 1

Maybe need to use ssh to get list first, then scp them one by one.

Something like follows, just FYI.

def get_copy(self, hostname, dst):
    ssh = createSSHClient(hostname)

    stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command('ls /home/username/*output')
    result = stdout.read().split()

    scp = SCPClient(ssh.get_transport())
    for per_result in result:
        scp.get(per_result)
    scp.close()
    ssh.close()

Answer 2

There are two more ways which I found useful in this context.

1) You may also do it without using SCPClient, but just Paramiko itself. Like -

def get_copy(self, hostname, dst):
    ssh = createSSHClient(hostname)
    sftp = ssh.open_sftp()
    serverfilelist = sftp.listdir(remote_path)
    for f in serverfilelist:
            if re.search("*output", f):
                sftp.get(os.path.join(remote_path, f), local_path)

    ssh.close()

2) If you want to use SCPClient to SCP files using regex(wildcards), THIS link will be helpful, I think.