Hello Tom
I've been successful in getting my use lib statment to work by inserting
the following statments in my .bash_profile file as follows....
CGIDIR=$HOME/cgi-bin
PMDIR=$CGIDIR/pm
export CGIDIR PMDIR
Then in my CGI script I have...
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use lib "$PMDIR";
use WSP qw(%WSP); # My web site parameter definitions
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
foreach $name (sort keys(%WSP)) {
print "$name = $WSP{$name}<br>\n";
}
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Where WSP is where I've define my web site parameters. I then print out
those parameters and it all works.
However there is something that I don't understand.... Since I've
defined CGIDIR and PMDIR shell variables in .bash_profile and exported
them, they are available to be used in my CGI applications according to
what I've read. And this is certainly true because my 'use lib "$PMDIR"
' statement has successfully utilized the PMDIR definition. What I
don't understand then is why when I use the following print statements,
I don't get the expected values. I get nothing....
print "CGIDIR [$CGIDIR]<br>";
print "PMDIR [$PMDIR]<br>";
Can you shed some light on this for me?
Thanks
Tony
Tony Frasketi wrote:
Hey Tom
Thanks for the response.
That's what I was afraid of and wanted to avoid - Having this in all
my scripts. I think I'll look into the '~/.bashrc, ~/bash_profile,
/etc/profile' route. If I can get that to work, then I'll have what I
want.
Thanks for the help!
Tony Frasketi
Tom Allison wrote:
Tony Frasketi wrote:
Thanks Tom for the quick response... But could you please elaborate
a bit on what these two lines do?
export PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB:$HOME/lib
myperlscript.pl
and where would I use them, in a single script? in all my scripts?
Thanks
Tony
Unfortunately it would be in all your scripts.
Unless...
you can either add something like this to you ~/.bashrc,
~/bash_profile, /etc/profile (depending on how you want to use it).
I have a similar issue with a Solaris box at work and can't get the
right permissions to configure the files I need. So I have to wrap
everything in a script and include that "export PERL5LIB" string in
every single file that I run from crontab.
It's not as bad as it sounds. It's really better to run crontab jobs
from wrapper scripts but sometimes I'm just lazy about it.
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