Subj : Outbound Report To : mark lewis From : Sean Rima Date : Wed Jul 01 2020 23:35:02 Hello mark! 01 Jul 20 13:36, you wrote to me: ml> Re: Outbound Report ml> 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" ml> excellent! my fix was tested i that script and we're good to go now... ml> the trick, such as it is, is to use single quotes around at least ml> those two problematic characters... my updated code in the repo single ml> quotes all of them... I get a no term error when run from a cron script , but other than that, it is working well Sean --- GoldED+/OSX 1.1.5-b20180707 * Origin: A Pointless Point in Connemara (2:263/1.1) .