Re^2: Processing data from SSH stream

[Spasticus]

Thanks for all your help people :)
I eventually found the problem - totally unrelated to SSH file properties. It turns out that in processing the retrieved data from the stream that in some instances I had to undef $/. Unfortunately I forgot to redefine it afterwards. This explains why it was working for the first file processed and failing for each one after.
Again, thanks for your help :)

[snoopy]

Btw, it's a good habit to use local to restrict the scope of modifications to special variables such as $\.

An example from the perlvar doco:

my $content = '';
open my $fh, "foo" or die $!;
{
    local $/;
    $content = <$fh>;
}
close $fh;