Hi everyone, this is a pretty simple question I believe.. but I can't seem to get it... I have a perl script that does a system call to get the date.... everything works fine, but the returned date has a line return character and I can't get rid of it... here's my perl script.. $date = `/bin/date +%Y%m%d`; I've tried system("/bin/date ... "); and exec("/bin/date...."); all return the date with the line character... how can I get rid of it? Thanks, Jake -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list