kaizar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I m writing a Perl script, which telnets to a linux/Unix machine, but I am not sure what prompt is set for that user, So how do I set The Prompt option in Telnet->new() function to match any prompt character.

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Re: Setting $telnet->prompt()
by quester (Vicar) on Dec 12, 2008 at 04:48 UTC
    In general there is no way to do that, since the user's prompt could be null, or identical to some of the output from the commands you want to run, or... anything. On the other hand, if the shell is sh or bash-like, you can set PS1 to any string you like to change the prompt: 
    weirduser@localhost's password: 
weirdprompt;-}  PS1="my_prompt> "
my_prompt>

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Re: Setting $telnet->prompt()
by regexes (Hermit) on Dec 12, 2008 at 08:35 UTC
    Hello,

    As another example in addition to questor's: Re: Net::Telnet + command prompt

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