Progress UNIX Command and Variable Behavior

I'm still new to Progress, and I had a question about the "Unix" command.

I have a database with stored unix commands, in this case they are all print commands. I've been writing a search form to find items that a user has printed in the last few weeks. After finding the item that they wanted, the user should then be able to re-print the job. It works, until I get to re-running the command.

UNIX SILENT tCMD.

Will literally run "tCMD" in the shell, rather than dereferencing the variable. Maybe there is something basic I'm missing here, but I'm not sure why the Unix command alone doesn't seem to work how I'd like it to.

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