Interestingly enough, the file is never opened. There are 4 grep calls before my altered one. Any reason that the grep line is enclosed in ``? here are the previous calls. 
if($aquiSW =~ /New Stuff/i)
 {`grep -i \"1\$\" $DataIn > $DataTmp`;
 $DataIn=$DataTmp;
 if($DataTmp eq $DataTmpa){$DataTmp=$DataTmpb;} # if
 else{$DataTmp=$DataTmpa;} # else
} # if aquiSw
if($lA && $Artist ne ".*")
 {`grep -i \"\^$Artist\" $DataIn > $DataTmp`;
 $DataIn=$DataTmp;
 if($DataTmp eq $DataTmpa){$DataTmp=$DataTmpb;} # if
 else{$DataTmp=$DataTmpa;} # else
} # if $IA
if($lL && $Label ne "*"){`grep -i \"\|$Label\" $DataIn > $DataTmp`;
 $DataIn=$DataTmp;
 if($DataTmp eq $DataTmpa){$DataTmp=$DataTmpb;} # if
 else{$DataTmp=$DataTmpa;} # else
} # if $IL
if($lN && $LabelNo ne "*"){`grep -i \"\|$LabelNo\" $DataIn > $DataTmp`
+;
 $DataIn=$DataTmp;
 if($DataTmp eq $DataTmpa){$DataTmp=$DataTmpb;} # if
 else{$DataTmp=$DataTmpa;} # else
} # if $IN

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