in reply to Re^2: backticks execution "inside" variable (string)
in thread backticks execution "inside" variable (string)

then try this (with all the bells and whistles for shelling out user input):

use IPC::Cmd; sub _userinput2filename { my $cmd = $_[0]; print "executing >>unchecked<< user-input : '$cmd'\n"; # see https://perldoc.perl.org/IPC/Cmd.html for more details: my( $success, $error_message, $full_buf, $stdout_buf, $stderr_buf ) += IPC::Cmd::run( command => $cmd, verbose => 1, ); die "failed : $error_message (@$stderr_buf)" unless $success; # this is the stdout of the command return $stdout_buf }

userinput2filename($string) will run each `command` block in $string and substitute it with the result of command's execution (stdout with all newlines in there) unless there is a failure whereas it dies. Regards to over the hills and far away...

Edit: it needs the sub (userinput2filename) and main from my previous post.