A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Pass in an extra parameter to perl -n

Use an environment variable

for k in $(cat list_of_ids); do export KK=$k; perl -F"\t" -lane'print if ($F[3] eq $ENV{KK})' data/master_list_of_queries >> new_data_file; done