Perl replace produces empty file from script, not from bash

I'm getting pretty frustrated with this problem at the moment. I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I have this problem with google chrome that it gives a notice of not being shut down properly. I want to get rid of this. Also I have some older replaces that have to do with full screen size. In bash, all the lines produce the expected result; however, in a script file, it produces an empty settings file...

These lines are in the file:

cat ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences | perl -pe "s/\"work_area_bottom.*/\"work_area_bottom\": $(xrandr | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f4 | cut -d'x' -f2),/" > ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
cat ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences | perl -pe "s/\"bottom.*/\"bottom\": $(xrandr | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f4 | cut -d'x' -f2),/" > ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
cat ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences | perl -pe "s/\"work_area_right.*/\"work_area_right\": $(xrandr | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f4 | cut -d'x' -f1),/" > ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
cat ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences | perl -pe "s/\"right.*/\"right\": $(xrandr | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f4 | cut -d'x' -f1),/" > ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
cat ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences | perl -pe "s/\"exit_type.*/\"exit_type\": \"Normal\",/" > ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
cat ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences | perl -pe "s/\"exited_cleanly.*/\"exited_cleanly\": true,/" > ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences

I've been googling a lot for this issue; however, I do not get the right search words to get a helpful result.

Problem is solved by using the perl -p -i -e option like so:

perl -p -i -e "s/\"exit_type.*/\"exit_type\": \"Normal\",/" ~/.config/google_chrome/Default/Preferences

The above line is enough to get rid of the Google chrome message of incorrect shutdown