I am very new to perl and truthfully to awk. I have an awk statement that works wonderfully for 11 files I have to parce. But I cannot seem to convert this to either A) work inside of Perl or B) figure out how to write it in Perl. I have tried using a2p but it makes no sense to me.

Here is the awk statement. 

awk '$1 ~ /^F/ {print $0 }' /tmp/frhtest/ADDC.bak > /tmp/frhtest/ADDC.
+$date

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It simply reads column 1 for anything that starts with "F" and copies that into another file.

I tried using system call 

$call = `awk '$1 ~ /^F/ {print $0 }' /tmp/frhtest/ADDC.bak > /tmp/frht
+est/ADDC.$date`;
system("$call");

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but I get the following error. 
syntax error The source line is 1.
 The error context is
                 >>>  ~ <<<
 awk: Quitting
 The source line is 1.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

John

In reply to trying to convert from awk to perl by Anonymous Monk

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