System command

From: Varun Jindal (varunjindal_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: 30 Nov 2004 02:30:00 -0800

hello,

i am using a unix shell command within my perl script using system
command.

lets say, i want to know what is hte system time (it is just an
example).

so i use the system command, but i want to put the output of the
command in a variable in the perl script.
how do i do it.

thanks in advance,

--Varun.

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