Hey guys, I hope this finds you well. I'm using perl (well trying) to telnet to a remote server, run the command which will pipe its output to a file, wait until complete, then FTP it back to me. The command I want is... /apps/current/bin/getz -vf "off des" "[$database -type: primary|predicted]" &> /data/holdFile.txt so in perl after it has logged into the server (which I'm certain is working) I use: 
$tel->print("/apps/current/bin/getz -vf \"off des\" \"[$database -type
+: primary|predicted]\" &> /data/holdFile.txt");        
$tel->waitfor('/$/');

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The differences obviously by putting '\' in so the command line is passed the double quote marks properly. Unfortunately an error occurs when running this from perl (runs fine on the commandline when I put it the first code snippet in). SO I've got a feeling the backslashes are wrong, but what other special characters do I need to switch off here? Thanks again guys!

In reply to Telnet print issues... by Anonymous Monk

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