I am running a Linux box attempting to utilize Expect in my Perl script. I have been attempting to get it to run
several commands to no avail. I've read the documentation and I have no idea what the issue is. Anyway
here's the beginning of my code and the failure. 
use Expect;
$Expect::Debug = 1;
my $string= '/usr/bin/ssh x.x.x.x'
my $exp=Expect->spawn($string) || die "error $!\n"

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I have tried many other commands than ssh with the same error. All the dependencies are also installed.
Below is the output I receive from the debug. If I don't run the debug I just get my prompt back. Any help greatly appreciated. 
 spawned '/usr/bin/ssh x.x.x.x'
spawn id(3)
        Pid: 3399
        Tty: /dev/pts/1
        
Expect::spawn('Expect', '/usr/bin/ssh x.x.x.x') called at test.pl line
+ 4

Closing spawn id(3).
        Expect::hard_close('Expect=GLOB(0x82ba93c)') called at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Expect.pm line 1575
      
Expect::DESTROY('Expect=GLOB(0x82ba93c)') called at test.pl line 0
 
eval {...} called at test.pl line 0
spawn id(3) closed.
Pid 3399 of spawn id(3) terminated, Status: 0x01

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