13 Jun 15 12:00, you wrote to Khelair:

 WV> What shell is /bin/sh on your system? Have you tried explicitly
 WV> setting #!/bin/bash for instance?

I don't think that would've helped the OP. It's better to avoid BASH-specific
stuff in shell scripts anyway.

On a lot of systems these days /bin/sh is DASH, which is closer in syntax to
the Bourne shell than BASH. Probably safer to use, too.

I use tcsh on the command-line, but always /bin/sh for scripts. Anything really
complicated and I'll use Python.

 WV> As port 22 is the default ssh port, you don't have to specify it. You
 WV> can just do -e ssh without the hassel of the quotes, for testing.

 WV> I do however always use -e 'ssh -o BatchMode=yes' ... YMMV ...

rsync already uses ssh by default, so that's superfluous.

And BatchMode is unnecessary if you're using ssh keys...

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