Update:

Thanks for the suggestions, they got the old grey matter moving. I tried a few attempts with both suggestions (Expect & CLI). Neither proved fruitful immediately. However, as it so happens all to often for me, something in the examples of the other modules gave me a potential modification to the original approach.

I'm putting the code and output below for the benefit of others in case they are attempting something simular with the XR-IOS boxes from Cisco.

What I ended up doing was removing the loop for each command after the ssh connection was established. I instead added a check of the interface description followed by the original command. This was looped to create a single variable containing all the interfaces to be passed after the connection was made. It'may not be the prettiest but it is effective. I just now have to apply it to the larger script I am attempting to update.

Again, tahnks for the suggestions and making me look at this from a different perspective.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Net::Ping;
use Net::OpenSSH;

$username = "user";
$password = "password";
@interface = (); 

#Input data to fill above variables
get_router_data();
$listfiles = system("ls -al /root/scripts/logs/interfaces/");
$deletefiles = system("rm -rf /root/scripts/logs/interfaces/*");
print "$listfiles\n$deletefiles\n\n";
print "\nAttempting to connect to routers...\n";
$pingtest = Net::Ping->new("icmp");
cisco_test();
print "\n\nThe End....\n\n";

sub get_router_data {
    $hostname = "router1";
    $interface[0] = "Bundle-Ether11";
    $interface[1] = "Bundle-Ether12";
    $cmd = "";
    foreach $intname (@interface) {
        $cmd = "$cmd\nshow interfaces $intname | include Bundle\nshow 
+interfaces $intname | include BW\n";
    }
}

sub cisco_test {
    if ($pingtest->ping($hostname, 2)) {
        $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new("$hostname", user => $username, passw
+ord => $password, master_stderr_discard => 1) || warn("\$!\n");
        $testcount = 0;
        print "\n\nPolling $hostname ......... please wait\n";
        open (LOGONE, ">/root/scripts/logs/interfaces/log.$hostname.tx
+t");
        $out = $ssh -> capture ("$cmd");
        print "$out\n";
        print LOGONE $out;
        close (LOGONE);
        open (LOGTWO, "/root/scripts/logs/interfaces/log.$hostname.txt
+");
        $interfacecount = 0;
        @interfacenamerecord = ();
        @interfacespeedrecord = ();
        while ( <LOGTWO> ) {
            @splitset = split (/\s+/, $_);
            $speedcount = 0;
            foreach $splittest (@splitset) {
                if ($splittest =~ /Bundle/) {
                    $interfacenamerecord[$interfacecount] = $splitset[
+0];
                }
                if ($splittest =~ /BW/) {
                    $locationcount = $speedcount+1;
                    $interfacespeedrecord[$interfacecount] = $splitset
+[$locationcount];
                    $interfacecount++;
                }
                $speedcount++;
            }
        }
        $printcount = 0;
        $intholder = "";
        foreach $intholder (@interfacenamerecord) {
            print "Interface $interfacenamerecord[$printcount] reporte
+d speed is $interfacespeedrecord[$printcount]\n";
            $printcount++;
        }
        close (LOGTWO);
        $testcount++;
    }
}
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Evaluation output

[scripts]# perl cisco_crs_int_check.pl 
total 24
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 16384 Jan 30 14:20 .
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root  4096 Jan 29 10:12 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   326 Jan 30 14:20 log.router1.txt
0
0


Attempting to connect to routers...


Polling router1 ......... please wait


Thu Jan 30 19:26:37.629 UTC
Bundle-Ether11 is up, line protocol is up 
Thu Jan 30 19:26:37.975 UTC
  MTU 9192 bytes, BW 240000000 Kbit (Max: 240000000 Kbit)
Thu Jan 30 19:26:38.268 UTC
Bundle-Ether12 is up, line protocol is up 
Thu Jan 30 19:26:38.545 UTC
  MTU 9192 bytes, BW 340000000 Kbit (Max: 340000000 Kbit)

Interface Bundle-Ether11 reported speed is 240000000
Interface Bundle-Ether12 reported speed is 340000000


The End....
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