As I already told you in the chatterbox, the safest and sanest way is to set up passwordless keys on the target machines and then to simply use ssh to do your bidding:

my $command = 'cat /etc/passwd';
for my $machine (@machines) {
    my @output = `ssh '$machine' $command`;
    ...
}

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If ssh is out of the game, consider using rsh instead - it's mostly like ssh (if I remember correctly).

If that's also not an option, consider Net::Telnet or simply use IO::Socket to connect to port 23 and pretend to be a dumb terminal.

In reply to Re: Telnet & Text Capture to file by Corion
in thread Telnet & Text Capture to file by sonicscott9041

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