I have been attempting to capture the transfer speed and/or time from an scp transfer without any luck.

I have tried this: $scp_output = `/usr/bin/scp test_file.tar.gz usr@host:test_file.tar.gz`

But $scp_output remains empty. I have also tried piping the scp output into the perl script's stdin, but again without success. 

# scp test_file.tar.gz usr@host:test_file.tar.gz | scp_capture.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

while ($line = <STDIN>) {
   print $line;
}

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I even tried redirecting the output of scp to a file, so I could later read it into the script.
scp test_file.tar.gz usr@host:test_file.tar.gz > scp_output.txt

My guess is that my troubles are with the way scp generates its output to dynamically update the transfer speed/time. Is there any way I can capture this info?

Example scp output: test_file.tar.gz 100% 3884KB  3.8MB/s   00:00

In reply to capture scp output by tomfoolry

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