I am working on an existing Perl script that used Telnet & Expect to start an application and then navigate through a series of menus. I need to modify this app to access a new server via SSH and am trying to use SSH:Expect. However, when I Send() or Exec() the command to start the application, waitfor does not appear to 'see' the menus. Is there a better way to accomplish this? Additional information: I am able to connect, run commands like “ls” and get results but cannot seem to navigate through the menus. 

$t->waitfor('199',5) or print "Prompt not found";
$t->send("startapp");   #start application
$t->waitfor('MENU1',5) or print "MENU1 not found";
$t->send("a");

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In reply to SSH Expect running apps by jrock70

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