Heres the outout I get when I run the script, I tried adding the say but it produced the same results.

Layer-2 Switch Line has invalid autocommand "show running-config"

In order for me to execute the show run config I need to get the box into enabled mode. I copied the sequences below from the CLI of me running the commands manually. Hopefully it will help illustrate what I am trying to do.

Switch-01>enable <--- Log on to box and type enable

Password: <---prompts for password

Switch-01#sho run <--- drops into privilege mode where I can run the show run command

Building configuration...

also I was able to get rid of the newline character by adding

chomp ($filename);

In reply to Re^4: Perl Script to enable Cisco by Null_Route0
in thread Perl Script to enable Cisco by Null_Route0

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