What service (e.g. telnet or ssh server or windows file sharing or ftp server or web/cgi, etc) is running on the central server that will allow you to connect and modify files? You have to define that first then we can point you to the appropriate perl implementation. Also, what type of changes? If it's something simple a perl -i -pe '' command may suffice.. which brings up the question, is perl installed on the central server? If not, you'll have to pull the file back, make your changes, and push it back. | [reply]
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If the changes are intended to be done manually, as opposed to having a regular and predictable form, then it seems extreme overkill to use perl, rather than a normal ftp access to the directory.
Otherwise, for automated changes, perl does not provide off-the-shelf scripts, rather CPAN provides modules to assist the programmer in writing such scripts. In this case, Net::FTP provides an o-o model that is easy to use (provided you know the basics of perl o-o programming).
Update: Some code has arrived in the OP meanwhile, but it could do with some code tags.
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I can't install Net in my daily environment, but there are a few ways to narrow this down:
- it would help if we can see what output is sent to STDOUT and what to STDERR.
- similarly what is the output to channels 1 and 2 when you try it with a telnet session instead of using perl.
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