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I have been using perl for over 5 years now and have never needed IPC::Open2 or IPC::Open3. I have a task that should use Net::SFTP but due to restrictions beyond my control, this is not an option. I have ssh keys set up so authentication is not an issue.

I was hoping someone could provide an example of how the folowing series of commands could be executed using IPC::Open2 or IPC::Open3.

• 1. Login to remote server
• 2. chdir to foo
• 3. get a directory listing - for each file do:
• 4. get the file to local machine
• 5. move file to bar directory (rename file bar/file)

Even if this is the wrong way to do it, I would still appreciate an example so that I will know in the future.

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