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I am trying to write a simple script to 1) open a new CMD window 2) navigate to a location 3) execute a .exe 3) run commands in new state (from .exe). The purpose of the exe is to open a com into another program.

#!/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

system ('start cmd /k cd C:/some location/gateway.exe uname@jupiter.ju
+piter &&COM open_job,job=232');

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Re: Run executable and follow on commands from CMD line
by cosmicperl (Chaplain) on Oct 22, 2018 at 14:40 UTC
    Not something I've tried before. But there might be a way by using open, much the same way you would when piping things to sendmail: 
    open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "To: $to\n";
print MAIL "From: $from\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";
print MAIL $message;
close(MAIL);

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    Otherwise, as you are on windows, maybe part of what you need can be achieved with a .bat?
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      Wow!! Thank you so much! I hadn't tried that approach yet. I spent about 6 hours trying all kinds of stuff! But it worked perfectly! Here's the code I just used. 

      open(Gateway, "|C:/some location/gateway uname\@jupiter.jupiter");
print Gateway "COM open_job,job=232\n";

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