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Have you tried something like (with explicit .exe extension):

/bin/rsync -Cavz -e "/usr/bin/ssh.exe" /cygdrive/d/ server:/home/ml/backups/

Probably won't help.
As both with or without extension work for me.

Regards,
Kiyo

ml wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> [...]
>> If you call sh like this, sh will try to run the file as shell script.
>> And of course ls is not a shell script.
>> To run a binary command (or any command actually) with sh, the command 
>> should be:
>>
>>     sh -c ls
> [...]
>>> i need some help with this:
>>> My plan was to use rsync via ssh from a bash script. But rsync could 
>>> not run ssh for whatever reason: no such file or directory.
>>>
>>> For quicker checking, invoking "bash -e ls" or just "sh ls" shows the 
>>> same problem - see below.
> 
> 
> sh -c ls works. However, the the original problem was that this little 
> shell script is not working:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/sh
> /bin/rsync -Cavz -e "/usr/bin/ssh" /cygdrive/d/ server:/home/ml/backups/
> 
> Error is:
> rsync: Failed to exec "ssh: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at 
> /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/pipe.c(83)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at 
> /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/io.c(434)
> 
> rsync cannot find /usr/bin/ssh, but it is there.
> I also tried just "ssh", since it is in the path and /bin/ssh.
> 
> Thanks,
> ml
> 


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