$ perl -e ' my $x = $ARGV[0]; $x =~ s/(`[^`]+`)/chomp(my $y = eval $1); $y/eg; print "$x\n"; ' 'DMY_`date +%d%m%Y`_MY_`date +%m%Y`_Y_`date +%Y`.log' DMY_21122019_MY_122019_Y_2019.log