Hi Monks I am writing a perl script using Expect.pm to ssh into a system and run a whole bunch of linux commands to automatically install our application. I want to execute next step only if the previous step returns the appropriate match for the shell prompt I am stuck with a regular expression match for the shell prompt- This is what i have so far. and I am stuck at the last step since it is not matching it. Am i taking the right approach and also can u please let me know what i have goofed up here to match root@ ~# 
$exp->expect($timeout,
             [
              qr'login: $',
              sub {
                $spawn_ok = 1;
                my $fh = shift;
                $fh->send("$sshUsername\n");
                exp_continue;
              }
             ],
             [
              'password: $',
              sub {
                my $fh = shift;
                print $fh "$sshPWD\n";
                exp_continue;
              }
             ],
             # I need your help here
             [
               qr'/[root@]$/' => sub { my $fh = shift;         print "
+regular exp matched \n";
               $fh->send("cd /u0x/tmp\n");
               exp_continue;
              }
             ]
            );

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