Perhaps you can do: voldemort=$(echo Ubxntx | sed 's/x/u/g') ... case $voldemort) and not have an issue. Their trademark exists in computer memo

Perhaps you can do: voldemort=$(echo Ubxntx | sed 's/x/u/g') ... case $voldemort) and not have an issue. Their trademark exists in computer memory, but not in code at that point. I think if the compiler optimizes that out to not have string replacing (not valid for bash, but for other compiled languages), that makes it more interesting since if they're claiming the compiled unit is of issue, well, that unit now might have the string "Ubuntu" in it depending entirely on optimization.