I've got a perl script that automatically logs me via ssh by spawning ssh with Expect.pm. It actually works pretty well and here is my ouput :

$ ngh bestServerEver
GPG Pass : 
root@**********'s password: 
Linux **** 2.6.32-042stab059.7 #1 SMP Tue Jul 24 19:12:01 MSK 2012 x86
+_64 GNU/Linux
motd!!!!!!!!!!
Last login: Mon Feb  4 22:18:10 2013 from *******************
bash
[root@******:~]$ bash
[root@******:~]$
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I'm trying to suppress this output to get to the server shell directly after typing my command. Like that :

$ngh BestServerEver
root@server#
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I've tried that answer :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1376607/how-can-i-suppress-stdout-temporarily-in-a-perl-program

I've also tried :

local (*OUT, *ERR);
open OUT, ">&STDOUT";
open ERR, ">&STDERR";
close STDOUT;
close STDERR;
print "don't print";
open STDOUT, ">&OUT";
open STDERR, ">&ERR";
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Both are okay when it's about standard STDOUT but Expect seems to be a different kind of handle or whatever. I've also tried setting :

$exp->stty("-echo");
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But it did not hide anything Finally, here is the sub that spawns ssh

http://pastebin.com/pSL3AwBW <-- with color!

if you have some tips to give me on how to hide that junk :p

sub interactiveSsh
{
        my ($pConfig,$pass)=@_;
        my $exp = new Expect;
        $exp->slave->clone_winsize_from(\*STDIN);
        $exp->spawn("ssh root\@".$pConfig->{'host'});
 
        my $spawn_ok;
 
        $exp->expect(40,
                        [
                                qr'(yes/no)',
                                sub {
                                        my $fh = shift;
                                        $fh->send("yes\n");
                                        exp_continue;
                                }
                        ],
                        [
                                qr'assword:',
                                sub {
                                        if ($spawn_ok) {
                                                $exp->interact();
                                        }
                                        my $fh = shift;
                                        $fh->send("$pass\n");
                                        $spawn_ok=1;
                                        exp_continue;
                                }
                        ],
                        [
                                qr'#',
                                sub {
                                        my $fh = shift;
                                        $fh->send("bash\n");
                                        $exp->send("stty -echo\n");
                                        $exp->interact();
                                        exp_continue;
                                }
                        ],
                        [
                                eof =>
                                sub {
                                        if ($spawn_ok) {
                                                print BOLD GREEN, "SSH
+ close connexion to ".$pConfig->{'host'}.".\n", RESET;
                                                exit 0;
                                        } else {
                                                die "ERROR: could not 
+spawn ssh.\n";
                                        }
                                }
                        ],
                        [
                                timeout =>
                                sub {
                                        die "No login.\n";
                                }
                        ],
                        '-re', qr'[#>:] $',
                );
                $exp->interact();
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