How can I ssh into a remote host with Perl?

Question

I want to write a Perl script which ssh's into a remote host, prompts for password before running some commands on remote host and parse the output in the local Perl script. Any help or pointers on this? Thanks!

Answer 1

There is Net-SSH-Perl
Some notes on usage .

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If you are discouraged with the module and need an easy way out,
you could directly invoke SSH on the shell.

perl -e {`ssh user@server "command"`}

should work...

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I hope you intend to let the SSH use its passwords and not implement 'security' some yourself.
Could also consider public key authentication .

Answer 2

I think perhaps the tool you want is not Perl but Expect . It is designed exactly for interacting with command-line software programmatically. It is written in Tcl , which is a language somewhat simpler than Perl, but broadly in the same family and not difficult to learn.