Hi everyone,

    Many thanks... I've fond my error:  I was using  ' ' instead of  `
`  !!! Thanks for your
examples .

$var = `date | awk {'print 1$'}`

Date was only an example of what I wanted to do. If fact, I'm scripting
my Quadra to backup our routers and I need to "built" command from
previous awk and grep result...

$interface = `grep "* direct" int | awk ' { print $5 }`

Many thanks,

Jeff