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Quintin Riis <webmaster@countrypure.net> writes:

> Are you using bash ?
> 
> If ~/.bashrc generates ANY output, it WILL break the scp and rcp commands.

And there's nothing about this specific to bash, either; on any shell,
producing output 
 from the startup scripts 
 in a non-interactive shell 
WILL break the scp and rcp commands.