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Also I like the idea of going all Perl or calling an entire Perl script. The trouble is we are an all UNIX shell shop and If I started throwing Perl scripts around it would blow peoples minds.
If you'd like to blow people's minds with specific reasons to write the whole thing in Perl see:

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Re^4: assigning a perl variable in shell
by scheidr (Novice) on Jan 16, 2015 at 22:39 UTC

    Nice but I honestly don't think I could get that many people here motivated to all learn Perl at once.

    Thanks anyway!

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      They have to, anyway, otherwise they won't understand your (inline) Perl script.
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