[PLUG] shell scripting question

[Matt Alexander]

I'm trying to use awk to print several columns, however, I also want
to run an external script on one of those columns.  So, for example:

cat $1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -f1,7,8 -d' ' | awk "{print $1,`foo.pl $1`,$3,$2}"

This, of course, doesn't work.  Basically I want to run foo.pl on
awk's $1 and not bash's $1 and then print that value as the second
column.

Any ideas how to do this?
Thanks,
~Matt

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