Hi all - Just getting my feet wet for the first time with some Perl scripting and I had two questions. I am working on a script to log into a Cisco and do a "show run" and dump the output to a text file. Im using the Net::SSH::Perl module which doesnt appear to support the enable command. Im not sure how I can get it into enable mode. Also need some advice on the creation of the txt file. I have the script create a file based on the host name, but it always seems to plop a ? at the end of the txt file and Im not sure why. Any advice would be much appreciated. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

###prompt for host###
print "Host IP ";
my $host = <>;

##Setup connection###
use Net::SSH::Perl;
my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host);
$ssh->login('user', 'pw');

###run commands###
my($run) = $ssh->cmd("show run");

##create file and write to it###
my $filename = $host;
open(my $fh, '>', $filename) or die "Could not open file '$filename' $
+!";
say $fh ($run);
close $fh;
say 'done'

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