[Solved] UNIX command in PERL

I tried to use this command in PERL code. when I run this on shell , it's working fine.

grep -v "^#" /oratab | awk -F: '$1 == "'$server'" {print $2}'

inside PERL

$ohome = `grep -v "^#" /oratab | awk -F: '$1 == "'$server'" {print $2}'` ; 

but, it's not returning anything back ... what am I missing ..

Thanks

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pls ignore ... I am missing \ ....

Thanks