Question

I have this script to read a devices list and send a command. but currently it reads only the first device and sends it the command, ignoring the rest. What have I missed?

#!\usr\bin\Perl\bin\perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use NET::SSH2;
use MIME::Base64;
my $host = "C:/temp/devices.txt"; # input file
my $user = "XXX"; # your account
my $pass = "XXXXXX"; # your password  64 bit mime
my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();
my $result = "C:/temp/result.txt"; # output file
$ssh2->debug(1); # debug on/off
open(List, '<', "$host") or die "$!";
while(<List>) {
    chomp $_;
    $ssh2->connect("$_") or die "Unable to connect host $@ \n";
    my $dp=decode_base64("$pass");
    $ssh2->auth_password("$user","$dp");
    my $chan = $ssh2->channel();
    $chan->exec('sh run');
    my $buflen =100000;
    my $buf = '0' x $buflen;
    my $read = $chan->read($buf, $buflen );
    warn 'More than ', $buflen, ' characters in listing' if $read >= $buflen;
    open OUTPUT, ">", "$result";
    print OUTPUT "HOST: $_\n\n";
    print OUTPUT "$buf\n";
    print OUTPUT "\n\n\n";
    print OUTPUT
    close (List);
    $chan->close();
}

Answer 1

close(List);

should be after the closing bracket.