I had a feeling the "eval" would be needed,

If your argument was Perl code, sure. 

$ perl -e'
    my $host = "localhost";
    eval $ARGV[0];
' 'system("echo", $host)'
localhost

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But your argument is a shell command. That means you'll need to parse the argument as if it was a shell command an interpolate the appropriate variables.

It would be easier to use a template. 

$ perl -MTemplate -e'
    Template->new()->process(
        \$ARGV[0],
        { host => "localhost" },
        \my $cmd
    );
    system($cmd)
' 'echo [% host %]'
localhost

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In reply to Re: Command Line Arg contains Variable and more by ikegami
in thread Command Line Arg contains Variable and more by VinsWorldcom

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