So I'm trying to automate the transfer of some files between two linux boxen. My very simple script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Net::SCP::Expect;

my $user = "xferusr";
my $password = "xxxxxxxx";
my $server = "server123.internal";
my $remotedir = "/var/www/html/reports/2009";
my $filelocation = "/opt/work/reports/2009/";

print "Login...Starting scp...";
my $scpe = Net::SCP::Expect->new(host=>$server, user=>$user, password=
+>$password, recursive=>'1');

print "\nFILELOCATION:" . $filelocation . "*\n";
print "REMOTEDIR: " . $remotedir . "\n";

$scpe->scp($filelocation . '*', $remotedir);

print "SCP complete\n";

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It dies with the error:
Error: last line returned was: opt/work/reports/2009/*: No such file or director at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Expect.pm line 760
If I set verbose I get:
Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host server123.internal, user ftpusr, command scp -v -r -t /var/www/html/stats_intra/2008 OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f xferusr@server123.internal's scp exited with non-success state: 256 at ./test_scp.pl line 19
If from the command line I do: 
scp /opt/work/reports/2009/* xferusr@server123.internal:/var/www/html/
+reports/2009

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It works just wonderfully. So I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong with Perl.

It appears from that first error message that the "/" at the beginning of the path was stripped off. I'm not sure why or how to fix that, or if this is just some weirdness with the error messages.

Can anyone help me figure this out?

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Problem with Net::SCP::Expect by xorl

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