I've got two scripts. One that will back up crontabs on remote machines, one that will backup directories. The crontab one simply ssh'es to the target, lists the crontab, and prints out. I use a simple 
open ( CRON, "ssh host crontab -l" ) || die $!;
while ( <CRON> ) {
     print $_;
}

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It works just fine. Doing something similar for rsync: 
open ( RSYNC, "rsync -az -e \"ssh -o BatchMode=yes\" --delete-after ho
+st:/path/to/dir /path/to/backup |" );

while ( <RSYNC> ) {
     print "output: $_";
}

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The rsync command will only print out something when it doesn't work properly. In this case, I actually store it and do something w/ it later. What I've found though, is that when I run the script, it is spitting the output out on the terminal... not being captured in the file handle. I assume ssh is printing to stdout and rsync to something else, but I thought Perl would capture any output, if I open a command as a file handle.

Before anyone asks, I'm not using the Perl modules as I've had a very hard time w/ them, due to different SSH versions on my network. That is beyond my control, so I'm adapting. The above works much better, sans the output issue.

In reply to Filehandle not reading by GaijinPunch

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