Hi I have put together a a basic telnet script script . I can get it to work fine for simple commands but what I want to do is replicate a script I user over ssh to spool the <STDOUT> to a file. The problem I keep hitting is the script runs and produces a page of info with a more at the bottom and then halts and then the script times out. I know it is doing this as I trace the TCP connection with ethereal and I can see the command execute and return a screen full of data with the more at the bottom

The basic script looks like this. If I change the comand to an 'ls' it works a treat 

use Net::Telnet ();
use warnings;

my $host ='somehost';

my $username ='user';

my $passwd = 'password';

#my $prompt = 'prompt';

my $cmd = '/  flow export fcap "src net a.b.c.d "  recent';

# my $cmd ='ls';

        $telnet = Net::Telnet ->new (Timeout => 20, Host=> $host, Prom
+pt => "/$prompt/");
        $telnet ->login(Name =>$username, Password => $passwd);
        @lines = $telnet ->cmd($cmd);
        $telnet -> close; 
    pop @lines;
       print @lines;

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Cheers Nigel

Edited by Chady -- code tags.

In reply to problem with net::telnet moduleand STDOUT by nigels

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