Re^2: How to remotely execute a command that requires input?

Well i'm running the perl script locally on a server, what it is doing is ssh-ing into a 2nd server and running a shell script that requires input. While i've had success i locally opening pipes and feeding input into them, i've yet to successfully do this on a remote machine. system("ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -l user '..shell script that needs input..'"); thanks!

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Re^3: How to remotely execute a command that requires input? by Tanktalus (Canon) on Sep 26, 2006 at 14:42 UTC
How do you do this with local programs? Why do you think that remote programs will be any different? Just remember: ssh is, itself, a local program. Treat it as such, and you may find things are much simpler. If you use `open("\| localprogram")` to write to a local program, just use `open("\|ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -l user 'shell script that needs input'")` to run the local program of 'ssh'. (PS: you should respond sooner ... as you notice, most new topics get responses fairly quickly - 12 days is more than enough time for responses. In fact, if you don't have a response within 24 hours, chances of getting any responses goes way down.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: How to remotely execute a command that requires input?
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Sep 26, 2006 at 14:42 UTC

How do you do this with local programs? Why do you think that remote programs will be any different? Just remember: ssh is, itself, a local program. Treat it as such, and you may find things are much simpler.

If you use open("| localprogram") to write to a local program, just use open("|ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -l user 'shell script that needs input'") to run the local program of 'ssh'.

(PS: you should respond sooner ... as you notice, most new topics get responses fairly quickly - 12 days is more than enough time for responses. In fact, if you don't have a response within 24 hours, chances of getting any responses goes way down.)

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