Question

I need to be able to run a commandline command from my perl script and I want the user to be able to interact with it like normal.

For example, the script I want to run is ssh $user@$box '. ./.profile 1>/dev/null 2>&1 && AnotherScript.pl'
I want the user to be able to interact and see the ssh command just as if he/she had executed it themselves. I don’t care what happens during the command, I just want execution passed back to my perl script when it’s finished.

Answer 1

system 'ssh', "$user\@$box", '. ./.profile 1>/dev/null 2>&1 && AnotherScript.pl';

See http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html for details about the built-in system function.