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in thread Processing data from SSH stream

Thanks for all your help people :)
I eventually found the problem - totally unrelated to SSH file properties. It turns out that in processing the retrieved data from the stream that in some instances I had to undef $/. Unfortunately I forgot to redefine it afterwards. This explains why it was working for the first file processed and failing for each one after.
Again, thanks for your help :)

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Re^3: Processing data from SSH stream
by snoopy (Curate) on May 11, 2007 at 01:34 UTC
    Btw, it's a good habit to use local to restrict the scope of modifications to special variables such as $\.

    An example from the perlvar doco: 

    my $content = '';
open my $fh, "foo" or die $!;
{
    local $/;
    $content = <$fh>;
}
close $fh;

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