On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:12:18PM -0400, Phil Hord wrote: > + VAR_NAME=$(printf '%s' > "$VAR_NAME" | tr A-Z a-z | sed -e 's/^[^a-z]/_/' -e 's/[^a-z0-9]/_/g') Is there a reason why you use printf instead of echo? Also, this sort of name cleaning should probably live in a new function: clean_environment_variable() or some such. Is there a git-utility-functions.sh library hiding somewhere in the source? ;) -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy