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Old 03-01-2012
It is declared as single quotes ( which is correct and important I guess) and used without quotes which will expand.

Code:
filename=`ls -l $1$dated$wild | tail -1 |grep ^-|awk '{print $9}'`

This ultimately resolves to

Code:
filename=`ls -l PROCESS1.CAIRP.SSZCKST.A_R.030112* | tail -1 |grep ^-|awk '{print $9}'`

Or I misunderstood you?
# 9  
Old 03-01-2012
The return code where you have it is the result of assigning the command substitution to the variable "filename", which succeeded.
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