Hello monks,
I've read in the Camel Book that you could call open with a command, let's say netstat, with a pipe, like this :
open(NETWORK, "netstat -i -n |");

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But it seems that when you call open with a pipe (to get the output of netstat, like in the previous sample code, for example), the opened FileHandle is write-only, or read-only, you can't write and read at the same time ... It isn't "interactive".
What I'm looking for is a way to execute rlogin, and then execute a set of shell commands on the remote host, as well as getting their output ...
Is there some trick to do with the open call, or is this method not the right one ?
Is there another way than using the open call ?

Thanks for your answers

In reply to open with a command by Tomtom

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