#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

{
	my @ret1 = `ls`;
	print "[@ret1]\n";

	my @ret2 = `ls | sort -r`;
	print "[@ret2]\n";
}

exit;

__END__

C:\Steve\Dev\PerlMonks\P-2013-10-24@0940-BackTick-Pipe>testbacktick.pl
[test1.dat
 test2.dat
 test3.dat
 testbacktick.pl
]
[testbacktick.pl
 test3.dat
 test2.dat
 test1.dat
]