09-28-2015
You can't put quotes in quotes. Quotes don't work that way.
You shouldn't be storing entire commandlines in a variable. Variables don't work that way either, as you've discovered.
Why not use the command line for the command, and reserve variables, for things that vary?
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NAME
pinky - lightweight finger
SYNOPSIS
pinky [OPTION]... [USER]...
DESCRIPTION
-l produce long format output for the specified USERs
-b omit the user's home directory and shell in long format
-h omit the user's project file in long format
-p omit the user's plan file in long format
-s do short format output, this is the default
-f omit the line of column headings in short format
-w omit the user's full name in short format
-i omit the user's full name and remote host in short format
-q omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format
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A lightweight 'finger' program; print user information. The utmp file will be /var/run/utmp.
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