Wildcard Expansion of $1 in Bash Function

[physics]

The following function works well when I want to scp one file back to my laptop:

function scpme()
{
 scp $1 me@${SSH_CLIENT% * *}:./$2
}

However, when I specify a wildcard like
scpme *.pdf
the *.pdf gets expanded out into the first .pdf file name in the directory, e.g. aaaa.pdf.

When I do
scp *.pdf me@x.x.x.x:./
it does copy over all of the files.

I tried escaping the *, enclosing *.pdf in quotes, etc. but no luck. Searching for the answer proved fruitless.

Basically all I need to know is how to get bash to not expand the input to the funciton out and pass it to scp as *.pdf. Any ideas?

[jezra]

You will need to loop through the input arguments in your script with something like the following:

function scpme()
{ 
 for i in $*
 do
  scp $i me@${SSH_CLIENT% * *}:./
 done
}

[physics]

Thanks for the tip but I'd also like to be able to do this with rsync so would rather not spawn a different job for each file. So does anyone know how to get at the unexpanded *.pdf when that's passed into a function?