In article <VA.000037fd.00e3371d at news.conactive.com>, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote: > Anthony Kamau wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:10 +1000: > > > >From here, I run the rsync command without the need for the -e option. > > ">" is a quote marker, don't write your own text after a quote marker! He probably didn't do it himself. Some mail transports prepend a '>' to any line that begins with "From ", because otherwise such a line could be interpreted as a message delimiter in a standard Unix mailbox. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org