Hi all wise,
I am a perl newbie and this is my first post.
My problem:
I want to run a terminal program from within a perl script and parse its output.
Once invoked, the program stops and promts the user for a password, after which it continues to produce output on the screen.
I have been able to use the Expect module to enter the password. But I have no idea how to collect the output.
As of now: 
my $cmd = Expect->spawn("program $params")
    or die "Couldn't run program";

unless($cmd->expect(2, "Password")) {
     print $cmd "passwd\n";
}
#Here I would like to gather the output for parsing.

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I tried something like: 
$cmd->expect($timeot);
$output = $cmd->before();

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but $output comes out empty.
This must be a common problem but I have not been able to find one simple solution. Maybe Im low on google skills:)
Regards
Im on linux btw

In reply to Automate program interaction by Anonymous Monk

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