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I think that the -q supresses the pre-login banner that is set in sshd_config, e.g.

Code:

Banner /etc/issue

and the --no-motd suppresses the

Code:

PrintMotd yes

If there is additional "print motd" code then the traditional suppression method is to have an (empty) .hushlogin file in the home directory on the remote server.

ok so update: I found that the "ssh -q" variable does supress the sshd banner however when trying to do that in my command - it does not seem to work i assume because of the quotes? Can anyone point me to the correct syntax for how to make this work?

command="rsync -ahvz -e 'ssh -q' --delete" <-- this does not work because of the syntax around the ssh -q variable currently but

just doing a

rsync -ahvz -e "ssh -q" --delete /data/sourcedir/ server:/data/destdir/

from the command line does work correctly

so i guess the question is how to incorporate the ssh-q into my command statement

sorry - im a relative newbie on RHEL scripting so some of this may not come out well in my translation

You can't put quotes in quotes. Quotes don't work that way.

You shouldn't be storing entire commandlines in a variable. Variables don't work that way either, as you've discovered.

Why not use the command line for the command, and reserve variables, for things that vary?

One of the rare situations where eval should be used.

Code:

command="rsync -aHhvz -e 'ssh -q' --delete"
eval $command /data/sourcedir/ server:/data/destdir/