Hello mark!

29 Jun 20 10:18, you wrote to me:

 ml>   Re: Outbound Report
 ml>   By: mark lewis to Sean Rima on Sun Jun 28 2020 21:33:51


 SR>>> I am using 18.x on the fiodnet PC and 20.x on the laptop and
 SR>>> both gave the same error

 ml>> interesting... i'll post you a little test script later... i'd
 ml>> like to see the output of it, please... i gotta write it first,
 ml>> though ;)

 ml> ok, i think i figured out the problem... please try this script and
 ml> post back the output...



-=-=-=-= MacBook =-=-=-=-

GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19)
Darwin Seans-MacBook-Air-3.local 19.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.5.0: Tue May
26 20:41:44 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.121.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

test1 - replace "^.." with "myNewPath"
test1 input : "^../SomePath/aSubPath"
test1 output: "myNewPath/SomePath/aSubPath"

test2 - strip "^"
test2 input : "^/SomePath/aSubPath"
test2 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test3 - strip "-"
test3 input : "-/SomePath/aSubPath"
test3 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test4 - strip "#"
test4 input : "#/SomePath/aSubPath"
test4 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test5 - strip "@"
test5 input : "@/SomePath/aSubPath"
test5 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test6 - strip "~"
test6 input : "~/SomePath/aSubPath"
test6 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test7 - strip "!"
test7 input : "!/SomePath/aSubPath"
test7 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

=-=-=-=- Ubuntu -=-=-=-=


GNU bash, version 4.4.20(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Linux bbbs 4.15.0-108-generic #109-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 19 11:33:10 UTC 2020
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

test1 - replace "^.." with "myNewPath"
test1 input : "^../SomePath/aSubPath"
test1 output: "myNewPath/SomePath/aSubPath"

test2 - strip "^"
test2 input : "^/SomePath/aSubPath"
test2 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test3 - strip "-"
test3 input : "-/SomePath/aSubPath"
test3 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test4 - strip "#"
test4 input : "#/SomePath/aSubPath"
test4 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test5 - strip "@"
test5 input : "@/SomePath/aSubPath"
test5 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test6 - strip "~"
test6 input : "~/SomePath/aSubPath"
test6 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

test7 - strip "!"
test7 input : "!/SomePath/aSubPath"
test7 output: "/SomePath/aSubPath"

Sean

Sean


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