Bug #121397 for Net-SSH2-Cisco: Bug in Net::SSH2::Cisco

The script attached does not work. I made some assumptions, including that the output you were producing was generated with Data::Dumper. The issue you're seeing is related to how Data::Dumper displays output and has nothing to do with Net::SSH2::Cisco. See the following: ---- #!perl use strict; use warnings; use Net::SSH2::Cisco; use Data::Dumper; my $host = '192.168.100.1'; my $username = 'cisco'; my $password = 'cisco'; my $cmd = "show version"; my $ssh = Net::SSH2::Cisco->new( host => $host, input_log => 'ssh.log' ); my @output; if($ssh && $ssh->login($username, $password)){ @output = $ssh->cmd($cmd); } print $output[0]; print $output[1]; print $output[2]; print "----------\n"; print Dumper \@output; ---- When run, the output is as follows: ---- VinsWorldcom@C:\Users\VinsWorldcom\tmp> test.pl Cisco IOS Software, 7200 Software (C7200-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(24)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c) 1986-2009 by Cisco Systems, Inc. ---------- $VAR1 = [ 'Cisco IOS Software, 7200 Software (C7200-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version ',.4(24)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) ' ',chnical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport ' ',pyright (c) 1986-2009 by Cisco Systems, Inc. ' ---- Notice, @output (and hence the members of the array, $output[0], $output[1], $output[2] ...) has the correct values when printed alone - the first three output lines. When displayed with Data::Dumper, the carriage return / line feeds are not interpreted correctly with Data::Dumper causing the leading single quote and comma (',) to overwrite the first two characters of each subsequent data dumped line. If this is an issue, you can file a bug report with Data::Dumper. It would be helpful to include a dump log: my $ssh = Net::SSH2::Cisco->new( [...] dump_log => 'dump.log' ); when reporting as this will show the hex including 0d0a carriage return / line feeds.