what does your system command look like?
Are you running this on UNIX? if so, why not use fork?
you might be interested in reading the:
perldoc perlipc
There is usually a chapter in every perl book on IPC. Some are better than
others.
what kind of varibles do you want to pass? (how about a using a pipe or temp
file?)
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:47 PM
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> Subject: Pass variables from parent to child script
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> When executing a child script from a parent script using the
> system command,
> is there a way to allow the child script to recognize the
> variables declared
> by the parent script?
>
> In other words, can you replicate the export functionality of
> a UNIX shell
> script using PERL?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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