I am 100% sure I'm missing something real basic here, but after a week of trial and error, I think it's time to ask you fine folks for help.

I am creating an automation script for work that will run from Windows laptops. It will use the Control::CLI module to ssh to the target remote servers and do the work. The script I created works wonderfully, with one minor annoyance. At a certain point in my script, I have to launch an external script that resides on one of the target servers and monitor it's progress so I know when to move on. The external script does provide feedback as it runs, which I do monitor... but my users want to see that feedback when the script is running. An example of what they currently see from my script is:

Are you ready to let it run (y/n)? y
Pre-loading started at: Tue Jul 28 16:10:13 UTC 2015
Please wait for pre-loading to finish...

X records loaded into system in N seconds...
X records loaded into system in N seconds...
...

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What they are asking for is to show the output of the pre-loader script, like:

Are you ready to let it run (y/n)? y
Pre-loading started at: Tue Jul 28 16:10:13 UTC 2015
Please wait for pre-loading to finish...

File1 loaded...
File2 loaded...
...

X records loaded into system in N seconds...
X records loaded into system in N seconds...
...

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The "FileN loaded" lines are printed out by the pre-loader script. The command I send to the server to launch the pre-loader looks like this:

$s1_output = $s1_cli->cmd("/path/to/pre-loader.pl arg1 arg2 2>&1");

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How can I get the output of pre-loader.pl to display in my calling script window?

Thanks in advance!!

In reply to Call external script via ssh with Control::CLI, get output to calling script window by ImJustAFriend

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