> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:51 PM > To: Brian Volk > Cc: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: pass variable to another program > > On 5/17/07, Brian Volk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Is there a way to pass a variable from one program to another? I have a > > web site that allows the user to set the time they would like to > > download a file... The program uses the Linux "at" command and launches > > another perl program that does the actual FTP download. I would like to > > pass a parm variable (email address) from the web site, captured in the > > first perl program to the second perl program. Is this possible? > > I don't know of a way to directly pass a variable from one script to > another. However, you could easily enough pass it in as a command line > argument. Call the second script like > > perl /path/to/script2.pl variable > > And in script two, do something like > > my $argument = shift | die "no argument given"; > > I'm sure TIMTOWTDI though. > [Brian Volk] That work great! Thanks. I just created the script file on the fly and added the email param variable at the end.
print IMAGES "perl /var/www/cgi-bin/get_ftp_images.pl $email\n"; Thanks again. Brian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
