package Vm; use warnings; use strict; sub latest { my $late = `ssh root\@10.10.21.15 'cat /usr/local/LATEST_VULN'`; chomp($late); print "$late\n"; } 1; ====================================================== perl script using above package called "Vm" #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; #use strict; use Vm; my $lat = Vm::latest(); print $lat; sub RedHat { my $path; $path = `ssh root\@10.10.21.15 'cat /usr/local/$lat/qscheme/redhat_comp.qsv'`; chomp($path); open(FILE,'>redhat.txt'); print FILE $path; close FILE; open(REDHAT,') { chomp; if (/$ARGV[0]/) { print "$ARGV[0] exists in Redhat_comp.qsv\n"; } } } RedHat($ARGV[0]);