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$ perl -le '`date | tee test.txt` =~ /^(\w+)/; print $1'
Tue
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$ cat test.txt
Tue 18 Mar 2014 11:02:34 EST
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system "echo @{[`your_command` =~ /your_capturing_regex/]} > test.txt"
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$ perl -e 'system "echo @{[`date` =~ /^(\w+)/]} > test.txt"'
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$ cat test.txt
Tue