Bash: Evaluating a Command from a Variable with a Redirect

In bash, I was assigning a command I wanted to run to a variable while redirecting the output:

  command="mvn clean verify > /tmp/out"
  $command

The redirect greater-than sign was being passed to the mvn command. Placing an eval in front of the mvn command does the trick:

  command="eval mvn clean verify > /tmp/out"