When I use Net::Telnet my command works but it also echoes the command and I want just the results. The docs for Net::Telnet talk about this and suggest using cmd_remove_mode, yet I still get the same result in my output. I've been working on this silly problem for hours. It seems so simple but I cannot figure out what I'm missing here?

Here's my code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::Telnet ();
my $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10,
                      Prompt => '/host\@user ~\/');

my ($username, $passwd) = qw(user password);
$t->open("host");
$t->login($username, $passwd);

my @distro = $t->cmd(String => "cat /etc/redhat-release",
            cmd_remove_mode => '1');
print "@distro";

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Which produces this output: 
$ ./connect.pl
 $ cat /etc/redhat-release
 CentOS release 5 (Final)

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and I don't want the cat command. Can anyone shed some light?

UPDATE:
Set cmd_remove_mode to the number of lines to remove such as 

my @distro = $t->cmd(String => "cat /etc/redhat-release",
            cmd_remove_mode => '2');

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to remove two lines.

In reply to Can't get cmd_remove_mode to work in Net::Telnet by gctaylor1

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