Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Need Help with Capturing Output

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:01:12PM -0600, al....@ac... wrote:
> 
> Austin,
> 
> Thank you.  Your comments worked.  Now I can see the remote file size on my
> screen.  I need to assign
> that value to a variable so that I can compare it against the size of my
> other files.  How can I assign the
> returned value to a local variable?
> 

	Take a look at $object->before() in the docs, or $before_match in
the $object->expect() section. Basically the idea is to use the output
before the matched prompt. In other words you would do something like

$ssh->expect($timeout, $prompt);

print $ssh "$command\r";

$ssh->expect($timeout, $prompt);

$output = $ssh->before();

	Austin