Anonymous Monk,
Normally, I would reply as dbp did and suggest that you go to a site where paying for code you are not willing to put forth the effort in is the norm.

But, I know who you are and that you have actually put forth a lot of effort in the CB today trying to accomplish this task. I think part of your problem is that you didn't take the advice of the people in the CB and post the KSH code along with this post.

You are much more likely to get a positive response if you say:
Hey everyone! I am trying to convert this KSH script over to Perl because I do not know how to fully automate it in KSH (send passwords/passphrases at appropriate time).

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# CODE GOES HERE
[download]

What I have so far is:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# CODE GOES HERE
[download]

But what I can't seem to figure out is how to <fill in the blank>.

This allows people to see the context of the problem, offer advice on what you want to do - or more often than not - point you to a module that already does what you are trying to accomplish.

I think you will make a fine addition here at PM, but you really should spend some time here reading all the wonderful documentation.

Looking forward to seeing the KSH code and what you have come up with so far in Perl.

Cheers - L~R