First off - I would say I am intermediate PERL programmer. I can follow instruction, examples, etc. I wrote a program to ssh2 into a server and return some data. I've posted code that works vs code that doesn't work. Here's the problem... If i put something like 'ls -la /directory/cirectory2' within the parens on the exec line it works ok. However my zcat command with the grep statement doesn't work :/ The $ibmslapd_fn variable is poulated and is a string format. I've also tried it with & without the dbl quotes and would really like to know what I'm doing wrong so I can get the zcat cmd to work too! Thanks in advance for your time and knowledge.

THIS WORKS FINE
my $chan = $ssh2->channel();
$chan->blocking(0);
$chan->exec('ls -la /db2home/idsldap/idsslapd-idsldap/logs/');
while (<$chan>){ print FILE }
print FILE "\n\n\n\n";
$ssh2->disconnect(); ### DISCONNECT ###

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THIS DOESN'T WORK 
my $chan = $ssh2->channel();
$chan->blocking(0);
$chan->exec('zcat /db2home/idsldap/idsslapd-idsldap/logs/ibmslapd.log.
+$ibmslapd_fn-2350.gz | grep -i "entries have been successfully" ');
while (<$chan>){ print FILE }
print FILE "\n\n\n\n";
$ssh2->disconnect(); ### DISCONNECT ###

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In reply to NET:SSH2 exec syntax usage by ZigZaggin

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