Sftp download directory while excluding files with certain extension

Question

So I know I can download a whole directory like this:

sftp> get -R *

How can I exclude all files with .ipa extension though? I want to download everything except .ipa or .ipa.* files from a directory.

Solution

Did you consider usind rsync (if you have it available)? It supports an --exclude option, where you can specify what you wish to exclude:

rsync -av foo@remotehost:/dir/ /localdir/ --exclude .ipa --exclude .ipa.*

Comments

[rubo77]

this is not a solution to the question. the question was, how to use sftp