in reply to Getting variable sized reapones using Net::SSH2

It seems that the read method is exact; if you're blocking, then it will wait for as many chars as you ask for. There is an undocumented method in Channel called READLINE. Changing your last 3 lines thusly: 

  my @buf;
  print $chan2 ("ls -l\n");
  @buf = $chan2->READLINE();
  print @buf;

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and keeping the buflen large (at 10K) gave me the results without hanging.

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Re^2: Getting variable sized reapones using Net::SSH2
by essej1 (Novice) on Sep 06, 2012 at 20:17 UTC

    Thanks. It works like a champ. Got to love undocumented features. While messing around I also found this may also work. I think your's is probably better.

      print $chan2 "\ndir\n";
  while (<$chan2>) {
    print "$_";
}

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