Hello Monks,

I need a small help. It would be great if you can provide an answer.

I need to embed one unix system command inside another system command in a single line. I cant use "system" command, but i can only use the charaters (`) and i cant use variables for assigning. Here is how i want :

`echo /tmp/filename.date +%Y%m%d`

I want to print the file name which has today's date suffixed to it. I'm not able to expand the inside data command

Hi again, Just found the answer after posting this thread.  `echo /tmp/filename.\`date +%Y%m%d\`` Please ignore this thread.

In reply to Embed Unix command inside unix command in perl by aibharath

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