thanks for the info , i dont know how to use nohup , perl is also new for me hence i wasnt aware of the chdir and do , now i was trying to use fork: sabkuch.pl forks a child which will run this server , the code is something like this, but that too is not getting me desired result 

 1 #!/usr/bin/perl
  2 
  3 use strict;
  4 use warnings;
  5 
  6 system('tar -xvf test.tar');
  7 
  8 my $child_pid = fork;
  9 
 10 if (!defined $child_pid){
 11         print "couldn't fork \n";
 12 }
 13 
 14 else {
 15         print "in child , now executing \n";
 16 exec('cd utpsm_run_automation && perl utpsm_lts_server.pl') 
 17         or die "can't run server.pl in sabkuch child \n";
 18 }
 19 
 20 exit;

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could you please help me with this ?

In reply to Re^3: untaring at remote location by t-rex
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