Yes - that works for me on linux, too. I changed $ssh2->connect('$hostname') ... to something valid. And I cd'd to /home/rob/pscrpt/net-ssh2 instead of shanthi_backup. That gave me the following output:

LINE : /home/rob/pscrpt/net-ssh2
LINE : total 12
LINE : -rw-r--r--    1 rob      rob           334 Dec  9 19:51 exec.pl
LINE : -rw-r--r--    1 rob      rob           453 Dec 15 11:09 shell.p
+l
LINE : -rw-r--r--    1 rob      rob           443 Feb 10 15:05 shell2.
+pl
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Unfortunately, on Win32, doing while <$chan2> simply does not work. At least I can't get it to work - the script exits and produces no output. There's quite probably someone here who knows how to fix that - unfortunately, I don't.

Only way I could find of duplicating the result on Win32 was to code it this way:

use warnings;
use strict;
use Net::SSH2;

my $buflen = 500;
my $buf = '0' x $buflen;

my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();

$ssh2->connect('192.168.0.3') or die "Unable to connect Host $@ \n";
$ssh2->auth_password('user','password') or die "Unable to login $@ \n"
+;

my $chan2 = $ssh2->channel();

$chan2->blocking(1);
$chan2->exec("cd /home/rob/pscrpt/net-ssh2 && pwd && ls -lrt");
$chan2->read($buf, $buflen);
$chan2->close;

chomp $buf;

$buf =~ s/\n/\nLINE : /g;
$buf = "LINE : " . $buf;


print $buf, "\n";
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That produces exactly the same output as I've shown above. It's obviously not ideal - for one thing you need to allocate a sufficiently large buffer in advance. If the buffer isn't big enough, you'll lose info.

Sorry, that's about the best I can offer at the moment.

Cheers,
Rob