Well, you CAN do this in perl, but from your description I would think a simple shell script would be more straightforward

#!/bin/sh
command1 arg1 arg2 ...
command2 etc
etc
etc
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update: to clarify, that script is supposed to run on the machine your terminal connects to. That usually is far simpler than trying to control programs remotely.

also: what's a C terminal? All references on the first google results page say it's some sort of amino acid.