G'day Blur,

Welcome to the Monastery.

Here's a pipeline containing awk: 

$ echo "a b c" | awk '{print $2}'
b

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Here's a Perl script containing that pipeline. Note that only the '$' needed to be escaped (\$2): 

$ cat pm_1223868_heredoc_awk.pl
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print <<`EOS`;
echo "a b c" | awk '{print \$2}'
EOS

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It produces the same output: 

$ pm_1223868_heredoc_awk.pl
b

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Look at perlop - Quote-Like Operators - <<EOF and scroll down to the Backticks entry for more about this type of heredoc in Perl.

[I see others have already mentioned the lack of information and, as this is your first post, I won't go on about it; however, you will need to show us an example with the problem symbols for us to help you further.]

— Ken

In reply to Re: awk cmd in perl by kcott
in thread awk cmd in perl by blur

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