Hi chopraa,

When you write "... \n ...", that is interpolated and produces a newline character in the string. If you want to send the literal string \n to the shell, then in your Perl string you have to escape the backslash and write "... \\n ..." or qq{... \\n ...}. However, NetWallah has a good point, perhaps you meant /n?

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D