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Here is how I fixed it..

Single q instead of qq...

This calls the entire line of the file into the variable first...
system (qq(cd /location && awk '/full/ {print $1;exit}'...

The entire string that I am executing is this:

system (qq(cd /location && awk '/full/ { print $1;exit }' /myfile |xargs tar -cvf /tarball.tgz --bzip2));

Unfortunately, learning perl is not an...

I have a simple perl script that looks similar to this:
#!/usr/bin/perl/

# Have a lot of PERL code in the front of this script.

#Would now like to execute a system command using AWK

system...

Thanks for replying, but did not work - regular expression compile failed (bad class -- [],[^] or [)

Looks like the [ in front of the work backup... but...

Here is the exact data in the file...

I have a directory I need to grep which consists of numbered sub directories. The sub directory names change daily. A file resides in this main directory that shows which sub directories are FULL...