[00:00] !anyone | Vantrax [00:00] Vantrax: A high percentage of the first questions asked in this channel start with "Does anyone/anybody..." Why not ask your next question (the real one) and find out? See also !details, !gq, and !poll. [00:04] lol, fair enough. Anyone know how to script well enough to take an input file, modify the email pattern of 'john.doe1@blah' to create a shortname of the pattern DoeJ1 that would preserve the difference between john.doe@blah and john.doe1@blah. [00:10] Vantrax: A good place to start for something like that is here: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html [05:00] No, the advanced bash scripting guide is not a good start. It teaches to write bugs, not scripts. [05:00] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/100 [12:03] hi