Hi I am trying to read line no 17 to 30 of a file and write the output to a new file. I am able to do this using a command line : 
 perl -ne 'print if $. >= 17 && $. <= 30' infile.txt > output.txt

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But the same thing I try doing within script I am unable to Here is the code which I am using: 


 #/usr/bin/perl -w
 my $outFile= ">/home/eyogmuc/Yogesh/Technical/Perl/output.txt";
 my $inFile= "/home/eyogmuc/Yogesh/Technical/Perl/infile.txt"; 

open INFILE, $inFile or die "Can't open $inFile : $!";
open OUTFILE, $outFile or die "Can't open $outFile : $!"; 

#system(`print if $. >= 17 && $. <= 30 INFILE >> OUTFILE`);
system("'print if $. >= 17 && $. <= 30' infile.txt > output.txt" );

close INFILE or die "can't close $inFile : $!"; 
close OUTFILE or die "can't close $outFile : $!";

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Let me know the right way of doing this.

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