Re^2: Unable to run command on Cisco switch

Many thanks for the prompt responses.
I have been down the road of trying to use Net::SSH::Expect but as you've rightly said, it would not work on a windows machine.
The other modules I looked at require some sort of pty, which windows does not support. Net::SSH2 does not work due to the requirement to have libssh2 on the machine.
I will try using cygwin again. Had problems with the installation. Will report back if i could get cygwin working. Otherwise the quest continues

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Re^3: Unable to run command on Cisco switch by salva (Canon) on Sep 01, 2009 at 10:28 UTC
Another option would be to use `plink` (the command line ssh client that comes with PuTTY). AFAIK, it doesn't try to emulate TTYs in Windows so it would be easier to automate than OpenSSH ssh client.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Unable to run command on Cisco switch by 1wax (Novice) on Oct 08, 2009 at 13:06 UTC
Thanks for that. I used plink. The -m option did not work, so I redirected STDIN and it all works fine. The gotcha I discovered was that cisco switch was being parsed \r\n as newline. So that made going into enable mode a bit tricky. But that all sorted now by sending my command and a \r. Thanks.	[reply]