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Old 02-09-2010
Formatting problem with cat, egrep and perl
Hi guys I'm using the following script to change input file format to another format. some where I'm getting the error. Could you please let me know if you find out?

Code:
cat input.txt|egrep -v ‘^#'|\ perl -ane ‘if (@F>3){$_=~/(chr.+):(\d+)\ s([F|R])/;print $1,”\t”,$2,”\t”,($2+35),”\n”}'\ > output.bed

error
Code:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('



---------- Post updated 02-09-10 at 12:06 AM ---------- Previous update was 02-08-10 at 11:44 PM ----------

Thanx guys. I figured it out. Some extra spaces...
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Old 02-09-2010
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Originally Posted by repinementer
Hi guys I'm using the following script to change input file format to another format. some where I'm getting the error. Could you please let me know if you find out?

Code:
cat input.txt|egrep -v ‘^#'|\ perl -ane ‘if (@F>3){$_=~/(chr.+):(\d+)\ s([F|R])/;print $1,”\t”,$2,”\t”,($2+35),”\n”}'\ > output.bed

error
Code:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

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There's an illegal backslash after the pipe. (The backslash is unnecessary even if the perl command is on the next line.)

You should use ', not ‘ and '

Also, UUOC.
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