executing commands and getting output from program

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Re: executing commands and getting output from program by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Sep 05, 2003 at 07:46 UTC
my $output = `command args`; [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: executing commands and getting output from program by nite_man (Deacon) on Sep 05, 2003 at 07:38 UTC
Try to look at module Net::SSH::Perl: `my $ssh = new Net::SSH::Perl('host_name'); $ssh->login('user_name', 'user_pass'); my ($stdout, $stderr, $exit_code) = $ssh->cmd('ls -l');` [download] _ _ _ _ _ _ M i c h a e l	[reply] [d/l]