OK, I have made some progress. I ran the perl debugger and after the 2nd print statement, the debugger throws following error: 

croak (ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT . " missing argument 'string'.") unless ($send
+);
croak (ILLEGAL_STATE_NO_SSH_CONNECTION);

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When I look into the "package Net::SSH::Expect", it is mentioned right on the top that: 

use constant ILLEGAL_STATE_NO_SSH_CONNECTION => "IllegalState: you don
+'t have a valid SSH connection to the server";

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So,..my assumption in my previous replies was correct, the script is ignoring the "send " statement because now I realize that by teh time the script reaches to execute the "send" statement, the ssh connection does not remain active.

Could you please help me figure this out, I cannot reason why would my ssh connection get closed ??

In reply to Re^3: Run interactive commands with "Net::SSH::Expect" by slayedbylucifer
in thread Run interactive commands with "Net::SSH::Expect" by slayedbylucifer

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