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Thanks, alister! That's exactly what I needed! :D

Thanks for the replies! I would still like the user input to be able to contain numbers, spaces, and other special characters like there:

`~!

I'm using a shell script to get user input with this command:

read UserInput

I would then like to take the "UserInput" variable and strip out all of the following characters, regardless of...

I've noticed that on Ubuntu, the "more" and "less" command seem to behave quite differently. I imagine the same is true with other distros, but I know for sure that what I'm about to describe is true...

Ah, that makes sense. You were a big help! Thanks!

It would be a long story for me to explain what I'm doing, but what you said worked! Thank you!

From your post, I learned that IFS stands for "Internal Field Separator", but what about "CFS"?
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I suppose the easiest way to explain my problem is to show you some code and then show you what the code outputs:

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#!/bin/bash
echo "This line...