Re: variable inside a string inside back ticks

Hello phamalda,

there are better ways to grab dates and filenames (PS infact haukex was faster than me and shown you better ways), whithout shelling out..

Anyway i cannot confirm your issue: it works as expected; you must have some other errors

echo blur > 20170730_195758.dat

# warning windows double quotes!

perl -e "my $today = '20170730'; print `ls 20170730*.dat`"

20170730_195758.dat
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Re^2: variable inside a string inside back ticks by Anonymous Monk on Jul 30, 2017 at 16:48 UTC
i cannot confirm your issue same mistake as OP perl -e 'print ">>".`ls 20170730*.dat`."<<"' >>20170730_195758.dat << [download]	[reply] [d/l]