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Re: remove the junk characters.

Like Jim suggested earlier, at some point in your processing pipe the data through sed and use regex for the pattern matching of what to filter out.

If you can...

I never did truly understand "exactly" what it was about how I was using variables that was the problem but I found a work around, so to speak.

First if you want to use a variable to hold a "bad"...

I'm not sure I understand "exactly" your problem with user input, but here is a "simple minded" first cut.

I would use

echo ="Please insert next CD"
Then I would insert a test loop here, to...

This is the results of testing the two suggestions presented so far.

(I hope this is not a double post. I posted this earlier but it never appeared in the forum...)

As long as the exact block...

Thanks for the reply amsct. For a while I thougt this was the answer to my problem

But your code below, is just a variation of typing the text of the file name into the script by hand. It does...

I am using a sh shell to try and create a script to remove backslashes (and other characters) from filenames.

At the end of the script I need to copy the original filename (with the backslash) to...