Hi Monks, I am collecting params from a page and passing it to a shell script. However, I am not getting any error while executing, but the the shell script is not getting executed. I need help on this. I tried different methods, but nothing seems to work. 
#!/u001/dev/edw/common/ul/bin/perl
#----------------------------------------------------
# Author: Saurav Rout
#----------------------------------------------------
use Time::Local;
use Date::Calc qw(Delta_DHMS);
use CGI qw(:standard);
use Scalar::Util qw(looks_like_number);
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser/;

my $q = new CGI;
my $appname = $q->param('App_name');
my $email = $q->param('Email_id');
my $table = $q->param('Table_name');

open(OUT, ">/tmp/table_list.lst") or die "Couldn't open output file: $
+!";
print OUT $table."\n";
close(OUT);

my $cmd = '/u001/dev/edw/common/ul/cgi-bin/car/code_gen.ksh $appname /
+tmp/tablelist.lst "$email"';
$result = `code_gen.ksh $appname /tmp/table_list.lst "$email"`;

print header;
print start_html("Results");
print<<"end_of_html";
<html>
  <body>
<h2>Thank You for using this tool. Your code is on its way to the emai
+l id specifed in the previous page.$appname, $email</h2>
<h2>Open the JIL file, edit the calendar related values (Date & time),
+ then upload/move it to unix for futher usage.</h2>
    <p>
      Let me know if you see any scope of enhancement in this tool. -S
+aurav Rout(Saurav.S.Rout\@google.com)
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
end_of_html

print end_html;

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