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tazz_ben <b...@wbpsystems.com> writes:

> So, any ideas?  Why is including a $ eating both the dollar signa and the 1?

Unix command lines tend to assume any $ inside double-quotes is a shell
variable name.  Try enclosing in single-quotes instead.

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