Joe Polk wrote:
This basically worked. Bash seemed to balk at the punctuation, which I
didn't understand. But thanks!

Put the string inside 'single quotes' and bash will not attempt to interpret any shell meta-characters it might contain. When you use "double quotes" bash parses the string and processes meta-characters.


Tony
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