using backticks

[john wright]

Hi All,
  i am getting error "The system cannot find the path specified" while running 
below lines code.
  
  $dirname = "util";
  $path = ` cd $dirname ; pwd`
  print ("$path");
  
  can anybody help me to get output of pwd in the variable $path.
  
  Thank
  
  
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