Subj : Outbound Report To : Sean Rima From : mark lewis Date : Wed Jul 01 2020 13:36:25 Re: Outbound Report By: Sean Rima to mark lewis on Mon Jun 29 2020 21:08:26 > -=-=-=-= MacBook =-=-=-=- > test4 - strip "#" > test4 input : "#/SomePath/aSubPath" > test4 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath" > test6 - strip "~" > test6 input : "~/SomePath/aSubPath" > test6 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath" > > =-=-=-=- Ubuntu -=-=-=-= > test4 - strip "#" > test4 input : "#/SomePath/aSubPath" > test4 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath" > test6 - strip "~" > test6 input : "~/SomePath/aSubPath" > test6 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath" excellent! my fix was tested i that script and we're good to go now... the trick, such as it is, is to use single quotes around at least those two problematic characters... my updated code in the repo single quotes all of them... )\/(ark --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12) .