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scp and .bashrc
Between two Linux/x86 servers, running RedHat 6.1 and openssh-1.2.2p1-1 I
found that "scp" fails with a :

Write failed flushing stdout buffer.
write stdout: Broken pipe

if your .bashrc file generates any output (eg my todo list :)

Paul
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Re: scp and .bashrc [ In reply to ]
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Paul Wouters wrote:

> Between two Linux/x86 servers, running RedHat 6.1 and openssh-1.2.2p1-1 I
> found that "scp" fails with a :
>
> Write failed flushing stdout buffer.
> write stdout: Broken pipe
>
> if your .bashrc file generates any output (eg my todo list :)

Things that generate output should be in you .bash_login file.

-d

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