Hi leslie.
Creating the file on the remote machine is not impossible, it's only a matter of quoting the string the right way.
In your case, it's also a matter of isolating that > sign you have inside your parameters, because otherwise it's interpreted by the remote shell as a redirection.

With this:


my @cmd = (
    'ssh',
    '-x',
    $remotehost,
    q['mminfo -q "savetime>3/1/12,name=DISASTER_RECOVERY:\\\\" -av -ot
+ -r client > /home/rbr/clnts']
);

print qx/@cmd/;

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you should get the result you expect. I assumed the \ after the colon is just one, because if you launch directly the command:
mminfo -q "savetime>3/1/12,name=DISASTER_RECOVERY:\\" \
-av -ot -r client >/home/rbr/clnts

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from the shell, one of the \ is eaten by the shell. The four \\\\ should be equivalent. I tried this with a "mminfo" command that is just a script echoing its arguments, and this is what I get: 
-q savetime>3/1/12,name=DISASTER_RECOVERY:\ -av -ot -r client

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and it's written in a file on the remote machine.

Cheers.

In reply to Re^3: Command Executing problem in perl. by mantager
in thread Command Executing problem in perl. by leslie

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