Dear Monks,

My initial goal is to connect to a remote host though SSH apply one command or several (through bash script) catch the output and exit.

It seems and it is extremely easy but some unknown reason I can not get the output.

The message that I am getting is:

testOS: Use of uninitialized value $stdout in print at ssh.pl line 32.
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With debug mode on (debug => 1), part of the output:

testOS: Use of uninitialized value $stdout in print at ssh.pl line 32.
testOS: channel 2: new [client-session]
testOS: Requesting channel_open for channel 2.
testOS: Entering interactive session.
testOS: Requesting service exec on channel 2.
testOS: channel 2: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
testOS: input_channel_request: rtype exit-status reply 0
testOS: channel 2: rcvd eof
testOS: channel 2: output open -> drain
testOS: channel 2: rcvd close
testOS: channel 2: input open -> closed
testOS: channel 2: close_read
testOS: channel 2: obuf empty
testOS: channel 2: output drain -> closed
testOS: channel 2: close_write
testOS: channel 2: send close
testOS: channel 2: full closed
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Since this is my first Perl/ssh script, I am kind of lost. I run out of options, all the examples online point that it should be working.

Secondary question, in case that I want to execute a bash script through Perl/ssh is this syntax correct:

$cmd = `/bin/bash test.sh`;
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And with script:

system("/bin/bash test.sh") == 0
    or die "Bash Script failed";
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A working example:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Expect;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Net::SSH::Perl; # SSH connection through Perl

$| = 1;

my $host = xxxx;
my $port = xxxx;
my $user = xxxx;
my $password = xxxx;
my $cmd = `ls -l`;
# my $cmd = `/bin/bash test.sh`;
#system("/bin/bash test.sh") == 0
#    or die "Bash Script failed";

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new( "".$host."" , 
                   port => "".$port."" ,
                   protocol => 2 ,
                   interactive => 1 ,
                   batchMode => 1 ,
                   RhostsAuthentication => 1,
                   debug => 1 );

$ssh->login("".$user."","".$password."");

my($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = $ssh->cmd($cmd);

#$ssh->shell;

print $stdout;
$ssh->cmd("exit");
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If I remove the bash (#) from the $ssh->shell, I can even enter the remote terminal. But I just want to apply a script and exit remotely.

Thanks in advance for the time and effort.

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