Julio -

I've updated your script a little and I believe this is what you're looking to do. Since it's looking for a specific "$match" string, password prompt and "---more" string, this will only work on JunOS. You can modify it for other vendors - or get cute with regex and make it multi-vendor.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Expect;

my $access_protocol     = 'ssh';
my $host                = 'myhost.mycompany.com';
my $timeout             = 15;
my $username            = 'svc_network_readonly';
my $password            = 'sc00byd00byD00';

$Expect::Log_Stdout = 0;

my @commands = ("show virtual-chassis", "show version", "show arp no-r
+esolve", "show ethernet-switching table", "exit");
my $exp = Expect->spawn("$access_protocol -l $username $host") or die 
+"Can't connect to $host: $!\n";
my $match="^$username\@$host. ";

$exp->expect  ($timeout,
        ['^\-\-\-.more', sub {
                $x = $exp->before();
                print "$x";
                $exp->send(" ");
                exp_continue;
        }],
        [ qr /$username\@$host\'s password: /, sub {
                $exp->send("$password\n");
                exp_continue;
        }],
        [ $match, sub {
                my $cmd=shift(@commands);
                $x = $exp->before();
                print "$x";
                $exp->send("$cmd\n");
                exp_continue;
        }],
        ['timeout', sub {
                print "A timeout has occurred - no match found\n";
        }],

'-re', '] $');
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