$stamp=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`;
`/bin/touch /u01/scripts/logs/$stamp.tapes`;

##</code><code>##

$stamp=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`;
...
$file="/u01/scripts/logs/$stamp.tapes";
open( MYFILE, ">>$file");

##</code><code>##

use POSIX;

my $stamp = strftime( "%Y%m%d%H%M%S", localtime );
print ">>$stamp<<\n";  # look ma! no line-feed!


##</code><code>##

/bin/cat 20070925133445
.tapes

##</code><code>##

perl -e '$_ = `echo foo echo bar`; print'

perl -e '$_ = `echo foo\necho bar`; print'