Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

i'm trying awk commnad to read only file names with the help of below command :-
ls -l tmp*.txt | awk { 'print $9' } | head -1

The command is working fine on command line, but when i trying it in script then its not working

$var1=`ls -l tmp*.txt | awk { 'print $9' } | head -1`
print "$var1 \n";

the o/p of $var1 is only for ls -l tmp*.txt and not for others

Please advise me if i'm doing it wrong.

Thanks in Adv
Ashish

IT should be var1 not $var1 is it ?
Are you using shell or perl ?

it's in perl

hum did not do perl for a long time but aren't you supposed to use system(...) ?