You have to export the variable if you want perl to recognize it!
Example:
$ ABC=xyz
$ perl -e 'print "$ENV{ABC}\n"'
$ export ABC=xyz
$ perl -e 'print "$ENV{ABC}\n"'
xyz
$
-Jeff
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:30:59 -0700, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> >
> > Willy Perez wrote:
> >>
> >>Is there a method to pass a shell assigned variable to perl?
> >>
> >>For ex:
> >>
> >>ABC=xyc
> >>
> >>perl -ne 'print $ABC'
> >>
> >>In awk you could use ENVIRON["varname"], is there something
> >>compatible in perl.
> >
> > You can do the same in perl with the special hash named %ENV.
> > for instance: print $ENV{'SHELL'}
> >
> > or you can use the env module:
> > perldoc -f env
>
> perl is case sensitive so that should be Env not env.
>
> John
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