> Because periods and other punctuation marks are typically used > in regular expressions, so processing usernames with, say, ! > in it becomes quite interesting and requires special handling. > For example: > > $ export UNAME="kurt!wall" > bash: !wall": event not found > > Here, Bash treats "!" like as it would when doing command history > searches. The grep command (actually, anything that uses regular > expressions) treats "." as a placholder for any single character, > which can create aggravating problems in text utilities. > > Kurt That makes sense. What we're going to do is use aliases(a user on the libranet list came up with that one). Thanks, Randy
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