I was starting to suspect that was the case. I did some quick research after posting and I didn't see where what I wanted to do was even referenced, and surely I can't be the only person that ever wanted to do something like that.
Damn, but I'm rusty. It's been nearly 20 years since I wrote a shell script.... and those were all in KSH.
For that reason, I will rule out `eval`.
I did come up with a functional, if inelegant solution; it works as I want even if it IS ugly as hell.
Thanks for the reply.
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RudiC,
It does, and I'll read up on using it. This won't be the last time I write this type of script. The CLI commands keep getting longer and longer. Running Centos 7 as a home media/file server.
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