Who told you this script was perl? It looks like awk. Awk is like perl in some
ways, but the one is not the other. For one thing, perl has '$' in front of the simple
variables, and awk does not. And $0, $1, $2, etc. are completely
different things.
Save the script
to a file, run it through a2p, and then you'll have a perl
script (and have a look at the -e option in perldoc perlrun to make it
work from a shell script like you have it). Or just change 'perl' to 'awk' and
then see if your script works the way you want it to.
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