Oscar, Short answer - you cannot (sort of). This is because your shell script will execute in a sub shell of your perl program.
However, you can do something like this: # untested system("export VAR=val; /path/to/your/shell/script.sh"); I think that might work for you. -- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Oscar Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:59 AM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: environment variable how can i export a variable from program perl to shell script through environment variable. Thank you -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) This electronic message transmission is a PRIVATE communication which contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, or notify us by telephone (877-633-2436, ext. 0), and then delete it from your system.