Assuming your post's whitespace has not been mangled (you should wrap output in <code> tags to avoid that), your issue is that the results from the external call ends with a newline character. This is easily fixed with chomp: 
$OLDVMDIR = "/sunstorage_kvm_images/kvm_images/images";  #Current Dire
+ctory
$NEWVMDIR = "/sunstorage_kvm_images/kvm_images/images_new";  #Target (
+New) Directory
$VMSFX = "\-vda\.img";  #File suffix for each file

<snip>

        @VMSHUT = `cat /tmp/virshlist_shutdown`;
        chomp(@VMSHUT);
          foreach $VMSHUT (@VMSHUT)
            {
              $VMFILE = $OLDVMDIR . $VMSHUT . $VMSFX;
              print "$VMFILE $NEWVMDIR \n";
            }

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#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re: Trouble with a string by kennethk
in thread Trouble with a string by johnnywhall

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