my $day = `/bin/date | awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}{print $3}'`;

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my $day = `/bin/date | awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}{print }'`;

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my $cmd = q{/bin/date | awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}{print $3}'};
my $day = `$cmd`;