The code you provided seems to have a few syntax errors (e.g., /usr/local/bin/perl needs the slashes to be escaped, and the regex beginning with sh is never terminated), but I've tried to clean it up as well as I could. This program is not equivalent to your Unix grep/awk pipeline, but I've tried to keep the meaning of your Perl code approximately the same.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

open(OF,">outr") || die "File not opening outr: $!\n";
foreach (`ps -ef | grep jones` =~ /[^\n]*\n/g) {
  next if m!/usr/local/bin/perl ps1$! or /sh -c ps -ef \| grep jones >
+ outr$/;
  print OF;
}
close(OF);
[download]

Hopefully this does about what you want. A couple of points about it:

• Backticks are used to capture the output of ps rather than a system with output piped to a file.
• "Jones" is changed to "jones" in the grep, since I think that's what you want.
• The elements of the array in a foreach are automatically aliased to $_, so there's no need to do it manually.
• Similarly, $_ is used by default by regexes and print, so there's no need to specify it there, either.

-- Mike

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just,my${.02}

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