Hello Monks,

Long time viewer, first time poster. Love the work of everyone in this community.

I am attempting to SSH into a node, run and capture various different commands, then process the outputs and present to the user.

Using shell() the below script works, however I want to capture the command output so it can be process it before printing.

Is there a way to capture the output instead of printing it to the user?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::SSH2;

my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();
$ssh2 -> connect ($ip) or die $!;
$ssh2 -> auth_password ($user,$pass);
my $chan = $ssh2->channel();
$chan->shell();
print $chan "$cmd1\n";
print "$_" while <$chan>;
print $chan "$cmd2\n";
print "$_" while <$chan>;
print $chan "$cmd3\n";
print "$_" while <$chan>;
print $chan "$cmd4\n";
print "$_" while <$chan>;

$chan->close;
$ssh2->disconnect;

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Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

In reply to Net::SSH2 to capture multiple commands on remote system by bellis

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