in reply to Perl in Bash

As Corion says, Lack of bash interpolation is the problem.

to fix, try: 

perl -pe 's%REPLACE_HERE%'$p'%g' abc.txt > $p

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Which gets the $p outside the single quotes. (untested)

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Re^2: Perl in Bash
by morgon (Priest) on Mar 16, 2015 at 16:50 UTC
    Or maybe simpler 
    perl -pe "s%REPLACE_HERE%$p%g" abc.txt > $p

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