What is correct of SCP command on Ubuntu Hardy

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If the use the following scp command then I get an error:

scp -P 22 [email protected]: /home/username/public_html/* ./

The error I get is:

stdin: is not a tty scp: .: not a regular file

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for help.

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