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in reply to system call with variable interpolation

Hmmm, seems to work for me, aren't I lucky :-) 
# perl -e '$d=`date`;system "echo \"d: $d\">t"'
# more t
d: Fri Jul 15 13:54:50 BST 2011

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A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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