@volkris Nooop.... This note the glob. scp takes one file. rsync you say? That will fail if you don't have rsync on the remote...
Copying files on the Lisp Machines used the same function, no matter if it was remote, or not. No matter if you copied recursively, or not. It is all COPYF (or the long form, COPY-FILES)
@volkris scp is not even close to a panacea. It is using a special command for special hosts. It is not "copy me this file .. damn it!". :-)
And then you might need to toss around -3 or some other annoying switch to make it do right...