Hi leslie,
I'm having troubles parsing the command line as you wrote it, so maybe your shell is having troubles, too.
What's the command that's supposed to run on the remote machine? I mean: can you tell us how you would write it if you were on the remote machine's shell?
Also, note that the remote shell is trying to redirect output on the file "3/1/12,name=DISASTER_RECOVERY: -av" because of the first > in the command line.

I tried this:


my @cmd = ('ssh', '-x', 'user@remotehost', '"ls -la > mylsfile"');
my @output = qx/@cmd/;

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@output is empty, since all the output was redirected into the file "mylsfile" on the remote host. I suppose this is more or less what you're trying to accomplish. Maybe trying to split the command into an array may help you sort out the quotes.
If I right interpreted your command, what you're trying to do is: 
my @cmd = (
   'ssh',
   '-x',
   '-i',
   '~/.ssh/bkp', 
   '<server name>',
   q[mminfo -q "savetime>3/1/12,name=DISASTER_RECOVERY:\\\\" -av -ot -
+r client >/home/rbr/clnts]
);

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I'm not sure how many \ you will need on that command line (assuming you're trying to put some \ after that colon).

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

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