Downloads should allow wildcards in downloading files

[pschaumburg]

🙍 Problem Statement

We have the need of downloading files from a specific directory. The files within that directory aren't statically named. So they could contain always dates and times that are different.
To download those files, we are currently using

    provisioner:
      downloads:
        /var/log/apache2/: './logfiles'

This results always in a directory named ./logfiles/apache2 which contains all the files.
A wildcard letter does result in the message like SCP download failed for file or directory '/var/log/apache2/*', perhaps it does not exist?.

❔ Possible Solution

Add options to download files recursively.

⤴️ Describe alternatives you've considered

I've also tried this with lifecycles in post_converge etc., which are very uncomfortable.
Additionally it would also a possibility to converge a node, then running a script without test-kitchen and destroy the node right after.

[vkarve-chef]

@pschaumburg just curious, did you try prefixing the wildcard with \ ? ref https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/27419/how-to-use-wildcards-when-copying-with-scp
disclaimer: i haven't tried to repro the issue with a kitchen.yml entry as above in description.

[pschaumburg]

@vkarve-chef
Tried all possibilities but nothing worked.