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ZWcarp has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello monks, I was wondering if there is a way to use $` and $' in bash commands... lets say

perl -lane '$F[1]=~s/(chr\w[^_]?)_.*\b/$1/;print $`. "\t". $F[1] ."\t" .$'' (which does not work because the apostrophe ends the executable... \' doesn't work either) .

Also why is it that \1 doesn't work... is using $1 the correct way to do this? If anyone knows of a reference that documents what special characters translate to bash commands it would be very appreciated. Thank you for your help.