I have the following code that picks up zz.txt and when it comes to destination, it should be copied as zz_hostname.txt and instead it copies as zz_hostname?.txt. No idea how to get rid of that extra '?'. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @array=();
my $diff_file="/tmp/diff.txt";

while (<STDIN>) {
        last if ($_ =~ /^\s*$/); # Exit if it was just spaces (or just
+ an enter)
        print "You typed: $_";
        push @array,$_;

    }
print "\@array = @array\n";

foreach my $i (@array) {
#print $i
system('/usr/bin/scp', "user\@$i:/tmp/zz.txt", "/tmp/zz_$i\.txt");
}
foreach my $i (@array) {
system('diff /tmp/zz.txt /tmp/zz_$i\.txt |tee -a $diff_file');
}

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When it does the scp, it would create files like - zz_host1?.txt, zz_host2?.txt. .. Dont know where that extra '?' is coming from. Eventually, the diff also fails. The goal is to gather the diffs for a given file, across 10 hosts. The email should give the diff per host basis but one email should contain all the diffs.

First, how do I avoid that extra ? after scp ing the file. I played with escape chars but could not go ahead. thanks

In reply to scp command in perl introduces extra character while copying by surajsam

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