Statement to do something if <> calls $remove.

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

        # Wait for user-input

        system( $remove_cmd {'remove'} );
        print
"Prepairing to remove \"$removeq\" from the CC_print.printers file.\n"
+;
        sleep 2;
        &clean_the_file();
        }
        else {
            die "You chose NOT to remove queue \"$removeq\"\n";
        }
    }
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Sub-process being called

sub clean_the_file {
    my $sourcefile = "/u/ccsys/CC_print.printers";

    # Keep a dedicated backup of CC_print.printers
    if ( !-t "/root/CC_print.printers.bkp" ) {
        system("touch /root/CC_print.printers.bkp");
        system("cp -R $sourcefile /root/CC_print.printer.bkp");
    }
    if ( -t "/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 ) = @_;

        # create a temporary file
        system("touch /u/ccsys/CC_print.printers.bkp_mkpq");
        my $tempfile = "/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
        `grep -v $removeq $sourcefile > $tempfile`;
        sleep 1;
        print "Waiting to unlink..\n";

        # delete source file, then rename working file
        unlink($sourcefile);
        rename( $tempfile, $sourcefile );
        system("rm -rf $tempfile");
    }
}
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Program is dying as the sub(); is being called with nothing telling me why!

I'm using Strict and Warnings, could anyone offer some insight?

UPDATE!!
The data I was trying to parse looks like this
#CC:'queue-01':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-02':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-03':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-04':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-05':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-06':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-07':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-08':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-09':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'

I have changed my code and now I can execute which printer needs to be deleted from the file successfully, while maintaining a dedicated backup of the file before it was changed :).

 
sub cleanthefile {
    my @filehandles;

    # Keep varibles in same order as they were passed to the sub-routi
+ne

    my ( $removeq, $sourcefile, $tempfile, $backup ) = @_;

    # Keep a dedicated backup of CC_print.printers
    if (-e "$_[3]" ) {
        system ( "cp -R $_[1] $_[3]" );

        # create a temporary file
        if ( !-e  "$_[1]") {
        system("touch $_[2]");
        }

      # extract lines from $sourcefile which do NOT have the string to
+ remove
      # note that the \' inserts ticks so that strings with spaces can
+ work, too
        if ( -e "$_[1]") {
        # system ("cat $sourcefile \| grep -v $removeq $sourcefile > $
+tempfile");
        system ( "grep -v $_[0] $_[1] > $_[2]" );
        sleep 1;
        print "Waiting to unlink..\n";

        # delete source file, then rename working file
        unlink($_[1]);
        rename( $_[2], $_[1] );
        system("rm -rf $_[2]");

    }
}
    else {
        system("touch $_[3]");
        system("cp -R $_[1] $_[3]");
    }
}
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Command that was run
mkpq -r queue-03
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As you can see, the queue-03 is gone!
#CC:'queue-01':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-02':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-04':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-05':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-06':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-07':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-08':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'
#CC:'queue-09':ps|2|-5|1.0|1.0:tp'

Thanks again everyone!

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