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sindi keesan wrote:
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> How might I write a script that asks someone to 
> type in their login name 

echo "Type in your login name"
read answer

> and replaces another string with that in a file?  

cat file | sed -e /another string/$answer/ > new-file
 
> it should also write my filter to their home directory 

You can find the name of their home directory by parsing 
/etc/passwd.  Something like this:
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cat /etc/passwd|grep ^username|cut -d: -f6
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Cheers,
Steven