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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Rsync - hot to omit MOTD/banners Post 302956269 by Corona688 on Monday 28th of September 2015 12:33:44 PM
Old 09-28-2015
I would expect an ssh banner to go to stderr, not stdout, I'm surprised >> is able to capture it. You could try --msgs2stderr but I suspect that will send more to stderr than you wanted.

Completely avoiding the ssh motd is difficult, that's something that's determined server side, not client side.
 

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PINKY(1)							   User Commands							  PINKY(1)

NAME
pinky - lightweight finger SYNOPSIS
pinky [OPTION]... [USER]... DESCRIPTION
-l produce long format output for the specified USERs -b omit the user's home directory and shell in long format -h omit the user's project file in long format -p omit the user's plan file in long format -s do short format output, this is the default -f omit the line of column headings in short format -w omit the user's full name in short format -i omit the user's full name and remote host in short format -q omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit A lightweight `finger' program; print user information. The utmp file will be /var/run/utmp. AUTHOR
Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for pinky is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and pinky programs are properly installed at your site, the command info pinky should give you access to the complete manual. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+--------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+--------------------+ |Availability | SUNWgnu-coreutils | +--------------------+--------------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+--------------------+ NOTES
Source for GNU coreutils is available on http://opensolaris.org. pinky 6.7 December 2006 PINKY(1)
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