On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 8:59AM, Oscar Gomez wrote: > how can i export a variable from program perl to shell script through > environment variable.
This is not really a DBI question, so you will have better luck posting this type of question to perl-monks (http://www.perlmonks.org/) or similar forum. If you want to spawn a process from your Perl script and have that have an altered environment, you can change the environment variable in your Perl program and then call the program (using system, exec, or backticks): $ENV{XYZ} = 1; system(...) == 0 or die "system call failed"; If you don't want the environment of the Perl script altered, you can set the environment variable in the command: system("XYZ=1 && export XYZ && ...") == 0 or die "system call failed"; If you want the Perl program to alter the environment of the process that executed it (a shell, cron, another script, etc.), that is not possible. -- David Dooling
