I need enlightenment with Net::Telnet.

I am attempting to log into another machine and do a tail of a file and have that output of that tail go to an html page. The problem is that the filename that I am tailing via telnet is a variable:

Filename:  /data/project/cann/log/cannedfile.$${bus_dt}

The cmd to telnet is
$t1->cmd( $command );

$command="tail -25 /data/project/cann/log/cannedfile.$${bus_dt}";

$${bus_dt} is valid global variable on that machine and it should evaluate just fine (at least it does from the command line on that box. The problem is that telnet is converting the $$ to a number 8560721 (something like that).

In other words, the error message I get is:
file not found: /data/project/cann/log/cannedfile.8560721.{bus_dt}

Please let me know if I provided enough information.

Thank you in advance,

Louis

update (broquaint): removed <table> tags and added some <code> tags

In reply to Perl Telnet weirdness by cosmicsoup

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