Your comment talks about SSH modules as if they were all the same but they are not. There are several of them and every one has its own strengths and weaknesses and none is better than the others in all the matters.
The example provided accounts for a more robust solution, which allows for one to extend to suit their design goals

The piece of code you have posted suffer from the same problem, it may suit your needs but it is not the solution to all Perl & SSH tasks.

It has several limitations: no connection reuse, no password authentication, no passphrases, no synchronization between different workers, no command quoting, usage of highly insecure options, wrong handling of hung sessions, etc.

Also, this solution can easily be extended to Secure Copy, as this would just be another command to run.

Almost any SSH module available from CPAN already supports SCP and/or SFTP out of the box.

Really, you should get more familiar with the SSH modules available from CPAN, specially the new ones. They are better than what you think!

In reply to Re^3: making NET:SSH quiet by salva
in thread making NET:SSH quiet by Stoomy

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