I would like to know an easy way to use scp to copy files and folders that are present in different paths on my file system. The ssh destination server requests a password and I cannot put this in configuration files. I know that scp doesn't have a password parameter that I could supply from a script, so for now I must copy each file or directory one by one, writing my password every time. in addition to the already mentioned glob: you can use {,} to define alternative paths/pathparts in one single statement e.g.: scp user@host:/{PATH1,PATH2} DESTINATION If you can express all the names of the