>
> That was the hint I needed. It's /bin/bash, which reminded me I
> just changed something
> in .bashrc which outputs a message and does some other stuff which
> must be
> confusing scp. In fact, I just confirmed that by commenting it
> out. Now scp works too.
> So: PROBLEM SOLVED.
>
> Now I just have to figure out how to tailor it some more so the
> offending code is skipped
> for 'scp'. That I can do.
>
bash has a built-in variable that tells you what the command
was....should be able to test for "scp" in your script.... i've
never tried to get that fancy with .bashrc.
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if it's really a shell -- the variable does not even exist for an scp session,
although .bashrc gets called.
++ kevin
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
