Re^3: Communication between Windows and Linux via Perl

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Hi Salva,

Thank you for pointing that out. I have been using the module as shown in a tutorial posted here, but not sure where I am going wrong. I will be thankful if you could provide any pointers on how to use it correctly.

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Re^4: Communication between Windows and Linux via Perl by salva (Canon) on Apr 12, 2013 at 13:14 UTC
Well, the truth it is a little tricky: First, you should loop until the `eof` method from Net::SSH2::Channel returns true. In order to not have a busy loop, you can use `sock` (that returns the socket used for the SSH connection) and `block_directions` (which tells one if Net::SSH2 needs to write or read from that socket) combined with `select` to wait for some activity on the SSH socket. Or you can just use Net::SSH::Any that will do all of that for you (or you can also look at its source code for inspiration).	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: Communication between Windows and Linux via Perl
by salva (Canon) on Apr 12, 2013 at 13:14 UTC

First, you should loop until the eof method from Net::SSH2::Channel returns true.

In order to not have a busy loop, you can use sock (that returns the socket used for the SSH connection) and block_directions (which tells one if Net::SSH2 needs to write or read from that socket) combined with select to wait for some activity on the SSH socket.

Or you can just use Net::SSH::Any that will do all of that for you (or you can also look at its source code for inspiration).

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