search for: oyao9u

Hi, I'm trying to run a command as follows: rsync -Lcav temp.txt datauser@mach1:\$DATESPATH/dat The above returns the following err: "mkstemp /dat/.temp.txt.oYaO9U failed: No such file or directory" $DATESPATH is a variable defined in 'datauser's profile, but it looks like the variable is not recognized in the context of this command. I have used something similar before on a different user successfully, but this doesn't seem to work. Can so...