Hi,

I'm trying to do something quite simple with Net:Telnet. I'm trying to log into a router, do a 'sh run' (or some other command) and print it to a file. Dead easy, right? I wish. Ok, here's what the code looks like: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Net::Telnet;
use strict;

my $router = "212.31.213.106";
my $t=new Net::Telnet();
my $instr = "sh ver";

$t->open($router);

#...does login stuff here...#

$t->cmd("term len 0");
$t->cmd("sh run");
my @config = $t->cmd($instr);
$t->cmd(" ");

my $file = "/home/me/logs/blah";
open(FILE, ">$file");

print FILE "@config";

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Now, the weirdness begins. See how I've got 'sh run' as a straight command, then '@config = $t->cmd("$instr")'? Well when I print @config to the file down the bottom, it prints the output of the 'sh run'. And if I change the command before from 'sh run' to something else, it does that. NEVER 'sh ver'. If I remove the command in the 'sh run' line, the @config array remains undefined.

HELP!

In reply to Net::Telnet variable assignment wacky by bonoboy

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