Rookie Perl Question

From: "swangdb" <swangdb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 30 Jun 2006 11:21:38 -0700

I want to run some unix commands from a perl script.

This works, it prints out all lines that don't begin with a # in the
file $ALIASES:

***
$temp = "egrep -v \^# $ALIASES";
system($temp);
***

This doesn't work, it tries to take the egrep output and cut out part
of it:

***
$temp = "egrep -v \^# $ALIASES | cut -d: -f1";
system($temp);
***

I get the following output:

Usage: egrep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `egrep --help' for more information.

How can I make this work?

Thanks!

.

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