I don't see any sign in the doco that either / or & has any special
meaning to chat, but if bash gets ahold of & it will not do what you
want it to, and chat will never see it. You could make the chat script
a separate file with -f or escape the & with backslash to protect it
from bash.
Or you can code them in octal with <backslash>057 and <backslash>046
respectively and chat should send them unmolested. Some mail agents try
to interpret backslash, though. I mean \
man ascii gives a handy chart for coding in octal.
Lawson
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On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Brian Butcher wrote:
> One of ISP's which serves this town uses usernames of the form
> 'yebo/12345678&yebo'. They use PAP password authentication.
>
> They say that they cannot offer any support to Linux users.
>
> My problem is this: How can I get this username through the chat
script.
> If I include the username either as a literal or as a shell variable
the
> script fails to complete. (Both succeed with other 'normal' usernames).
> I presume the chat script is interpreting the '/' symbol.
>
> What is going on and how can I solve this problem?
>
> Brian Butcher
>
>
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