Not sure I understand. Have you hardcoded those file names in the system call?  I would guess that you get the input file names from somewhere (listing directory contents, some config file, user input...).  Otherwise, how would the program work if there's a new date stamp...

So why not simply dynamically create the output file name according to the date stamp found in the input file?  For example:

my $in1 = "exhibit1_29JUN2010.pdf";
my $in2 = "exhibit2.pdf";

my ($date) = $in1 =~ /_([^_]+)\.pdf$/;  # extract date

my $out = "exhibits_$date.pdf";         # create output file name

system "pdftk /home/Memos/$in1 /home/Memos/$in2 cat output /home/Memos
+/$out";

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Or maybe 

my $dir = "/home/Memos";
my $in1 = <$dir/exhibit1_*.pdf>;
my $in2 = "$dir/exhibit2.pdf";

my ($date) = $in1 =~ /_([^_]+)\.pdf$/;

my $out = "$dir/exhibits_$date.pdf";

system "pdftk", $in1, $in2, "cat", "output", $out;

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In reply to Re^3: combining PDFs by almut
in thread combining PDFs by NorthShore44

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