plankton, yeah I did a search for net ssh perl before posting, I only see ref to people having trouble installing and using it. I was hoping there may be an option in CPAN modules which have this functionality, but it looks like it doesn't when I read it. Expect may be a way to go about getting this done automatically, but I am looking for a generic solutions for all other modules which requires human intervention to proceed. Any idea brothers?

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SSH::Perl' < /dev /null
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It may be possible to create a file with the selections and pipe this to Makefile.PL. This relies on the prompts coming in the same order.

I have not done that, But I was thinking of using this code snippet from README on CPAN,

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CPAN;
for $mod (qw(MD5 Net::SSH::Perl)){
            my $obj = CPAN::Shell->expand('Module',$mod);
            $obj->install;
        }
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But I was wondering if I could automate it by passing Makefile.PL the arguments like so

$obj->makepl_arg = "arg1 arg2 arg3 ...";
$obj->install;
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Have any one try this? Thanks.