Re: [Ssh-sftp-perl-users] Using Net::SSH2 as a file handle

[David R. <dbr...@cp...>]

On Thursday January 19, 2006 09:02, Bryan Bueter wrote:
> Greetings, Some time ago I used Net::SSH::Perl, but gave it up for Expect.
>  Now I'm back looking at Net::SSH2, but would still like to put expect on
> top of it.  I want to use Net::SSH2 because it appears thread safe, while
> spawining a process with a tty in expect for perl is not.
> 
> What I want to do is create a Net::SSH2 object, connect, get an
> interactive shell, and interact with it via a file handle.  Then i can use
> expect on top of that and do whatever I like.
> 
> I dont fully understand channels, but from what I remember with
> Net::SSH::Perl, a new channel had to be created every time you sent a
> command.  But now there is a Net::SSH2::Channel->shell() function, perhaps
> there is a way to launch a shell on a channel and interact with that?

There is.  The shell() function just makes the channel a shell channel, and you can send commands to it.

> I see Net::SSH2::Channel is itself a tied filehandle, but attempts to
> directly manipulate that dont result in what I expected.

In what way?  If you can give details I'll try to fix them.

-- 
Dave
Isa. 40:31