It's worth pointing out that you shouldn't use variables in system calls without knowing for sure what the variables contain. If you aren't positive that what's in $ep is safe, you are taking a huge risk.

You should read the section on Taint mode and @INC in perlsec (and, in fact, all of perlsec is good reading) before letting that line into a public/production environment.

Yeah, I'm paranoid -- once bitten, twice shy and all that.

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thx...that worked. I knew it wuz gonna be simple.

system ('tremove @host:' . $ep);
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As someone has no doubt already pointed out, the single quote doesn't do variable interpolation. You probably want

system ("tremove @host:$ep");  #  WRONG -- should be \@host
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Update: Sorry, as has been pointed out -- the '@' should be escaped with a leading '\'. That'll teach me to post something, then wander off to continue my work day.

system ("tremove @host:$ep");

That solves one problem by creating another. You've solved the problem of $ep not interpolating, but you've created the problem of @host interpolating, when the OP stated it's not intended to be a variable.

You could use either of the following techniques:

system( 'tremove @host:' . $ep );
system( "tremove \@host:$ep" );
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Dave

You meant to escape the @ as \@ but didn't.

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