if ($remove) {
    $remove = lc($remove);
    my %remove_cmd = ( remove => "rmquedev -d $remove -q $remove" );
    print "Are you sure you want to remove print queue \"$remove\" [Y/n]?";
    $_ = <>;
    chomp($_);
    $_ = "Y" if ( length($_) == 0 );
    if ( $_ =~ /[Yy]/ ) {

        # Wait for user-input

        system( $remove_cmd {'remove'} );
        print
"Prepairing to remove \"$remove\" from the CC_print.printers file.\n";
        sleep 2;
        my $removeq = $remove;
        &cleanthefile($removeq);
        }
        else {
            die "You chose NOT to remove queue \"$remove\"\n";
        }
    }

##</code><code>##

sub cleanthefile {
    my $sourcefile = "/u/ccsys/CC_print.printers";
print $removeq;
print "$sourcefile\n";


    # Keep a dedicated backup of CC_print.printers
    if ( -t ne "/root/CC_print.printers.bkp" ) {
        system("touch /root/CC_print.printers.bkp");
        sleep 2;
        system("cp -R $sourcefile /root/CC_print.printer.bkp");
    }
    if ( -t eq "/root/CC_print.printers.bkp" ) {
        system("cp -R $sourcefile /root/CC_print.printer.bkp");

# grab the sourcefile and the string to remove as the first and second arguments
        my ( $sourcefile, $removeq )= @_;
        my $tempfile = "/u/ccsys/CC_print.printers.bkp_mkpq";

        # create a temporary file
        if (-e ne "$tempfile") {
        system("touch /u/ccsys/CC_print.printers.bkp_mkpq");
        }

      # extract lines from $sourcefile which do NOT have the string to remove
      # note that the \' inserts ticks so that strings with spaces can work, too
        if ( -t "$tempfile") {
        #system ("cat $sourcefile \| grep -v $removeq $sourcefile > $tempfile");
        #`grep -v $removeq $sourcefile /dev/null /dev/null > $tempfile`;
        sleep 1;
        print "Waiting to unlink..\n";

        # delete source file, then rename working file
        unlink($sourcefile);
        rename( $tempfile, $sourcefile );
        system("rm -rf $tempfile");
        }
    }
}