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Old 03-12-2009
glev2005 glev2005 is offline
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If first letter of name is a-m do this if n-x do something else
so if I run echo $USER and the name is smithr i want to run command B to run because s is after m in the alphabet, but if the user is aldap I want command A to run because their first initial in the user name is in the first half of alphabet.

how please?