Hi all, first post here. Hopefully someone can help me figure out my little problem I'm fighting with.

I'm attempting to pass an Net::OpenSSH object between subroutines and I'm finding it pretty difficult to do.

Here's what I'm trying. 
my $ssh = login($user, $pass, $host);
test(\$ssh);

sub login  {
  ($user, $pass, $host) = @_;
  my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH -> new($host, user=>$user, password=> $pass);
  return $ssh;
}

sub test {
  $ssh2 = shift;
  $output = $ssh2 -> capture("ls /tmp");
  print $output;
}

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I get the following error: "Can't call method "capture" on unblessed reference at ./test3.pl"

Is there a way I can pass the object reference between the subroutines?

Thanks for the help.

In reply to Pass object to subroutine. by tacoking92

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