Thank you sn1987a

It looks like that worked for the root password but I used the same single quotes for when I get my password changed. The script stops now at when I do a expect/send after sending passwd amagana at New UNIX Password like this..

[root@Remotehost ~]# Starting EXPECT pattern matching...
 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Expect.pm line 561
        Expect::expect('Expect=GLOB(0xc4cc170)', 60, 'New UNIX Passwor
+d:') called at test-a-filehandle.pl line 82
        main::change_password('linux-host\x{a}') called at test-a-file
+handle.pl line 39
passwd amagana
Changing password for user amagana.
New UNIX password:
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$ssh->send("passwd amagana\n");
$ssh->expect(60, 'New UNIX Password:');  #linux
$ssh->send( 'XxX*%xx,^xxxxXx_' . "\n");
$ssh->expect(60, 'Retype new UNIX password:'); #linux
$ssh->send( 'XxX*%xx,^xxxxXx_' . "\n");
$ssh->expect(60, '#');
$ssh->send("exit\n");
$ssh->expect(60, '$');
$ssh->send("exit\n");
$ssh->close();
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