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You should take a look at the Net::Telnet module. You can setup telnet connection from within a program (= non-interactive). You can send out commands and read the result back.
No, I don't know perl at all, but I did come across that module a little while back, and installed it. From the readme, and looking at some other scripts that use the telnet module, I managed to write a pretty smooth script that did exactly what I want! =D
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