Hi Monks,
I need to know if there is some way to read data into buffer and mentioning the bytes to read dynamically ?
I am currently executing something like this

$chan->shell();
$chan->write("egrep -l $searchStr * 2>&1 | tee ~/myfile.txt\n");
the above can have multiple lines as output or jus a single line or nothing at all. After this I have the read call.
$chan->read($buf, 512);
here if the ouput of the egrep does not have 512 bytes, the read call waits until it reads 512.
If I make the channel as non-blocking, then the read call does not complete and I do not get the desired result stored in the file - myfile.txt
please let me know if there is a work-around for this or I am missing something ?
J

In reply to Read call in Net::SSH2::Channel by godsown

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