[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] Multiple operations in a single channel/shell? (Net::SSH)

[Wildish, J. <Joe...@ca...>]

I originally thought that I could use Net::SSH::Perl to issue multiple
commands in the same shell. However, having looked into it a little
more, it seems that this is not the default behaviour. I have done a
little research, and it appears that a seperate channel is created each
time the cmd method is called - which effectively creates a new shell.

I am wanting to execute the commands in the same shell. For example:

($out,$err,$rc) =3D $ssh->cmd("export FOO=3DWIBBLE");
($out2,$err2,$rc2) =3D $ssh->cmd("print $FOO");

$out2 would equal "WIBBLE"....

I think I can probably achieve this behaviour by registering a handler
and iterating through each of the commands I want to issue within the
subroutine, but this doesn't seem the nicest way. Ideally, if I could
pass in the channel number to the cmd method, that would be cool... I am
assuming of course that there are no problems with this approach?

I was hoping people on this list may have come across this requirement
before, and could perhaps point me in the right direction .... (?)

Regards,
Joe