How can I ssh inside a Perl script?

Asked 2010-05-17T11:48:50.897

I want to SSH to a server and execute a simple command like "id" and get the output of it and store it to a file on my primary server. I do not have privileges to install Net::SSH which would make my task very easy. Please provide me a solution for this. I tried using back-ticks but I am not able to store the output on the machine from which my script runs.

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You can always install modules locally, and that is the method you should look into; however, you should be able to get away with

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $id = qx/ssh remotehost id 2>&1/;

chomp $id;

print "id is [$id]\n"

answered 2010-05-17T11:55:04.047

How can I ssh inside a Perl script?

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