Hi, bruce wrote: > now. I'm officially in the twilight zone... > rsync -avz /home/test/cat/ test@192.168.125.133:/home/test/cat > rsync -avz /home/test/cat/ test@192.168.125.133:/home/test/cat > I'm wondering if there's some weird char being inserted.. In your mail these lines differ by the blank characters before "test". 0x20 0xc2 0xa0 0x20 0xc2 0xa0 0x20 versu 0x20 0xc2 0xa0 0x20 is the classic blank character. 0xc2 0xa0 is UTF-8 for Non-Breaking Space. Note that the not working line has no classic blank directly before "test". I wonder whether the non-breaking spaces are an artifact of your mail client or already present in your shell command. It might be that you can produce non-breaking space by shift+blank. > "/home/crawl_user/cat/ /home/test/cat" Here your mail shows no classic blank at all. Only 0xc2 0xa0. If i were you i would inspect the text lines by a binary dumper. Like echo -n '...pasted.text...' | od -c I get: $ echo '/home/crawl_user/cat/ /home/test/cat' | od -c 0000000 / h o m e / c r a w l _ u s e r 0000020 / c a t / 302 240 / h o m e / t e s 0000040 t / c a t \n 0000046 "302" and "240" are octal numbers. In hex its 0xc2 0xa0. Have a nice day :) Thomas _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx