Why on Earth are you directing this question here? The perl6-internals
mailing list is about the internals of the new Perl6 implementation.
++Jos.nl
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:05:35PM +0530 it came to pass that Janarthanan, Prassana
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can any one tell me as how should I source a file. Which exports environment
> variable? Something like this...
>
> FileName= ".myenv"
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> #! /usr/local/bin/bash
>
> export var1; va1=/u/janarthp/perl
> export var2; va2=/u/janarthp/perl2
> export var3; va1=/u/janarthp/perl3
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> I want to source this file inside a perl script. One criticle thing is, this
> file is bash. So I have to use `. .myenv` to source the file.
>
> FileName= "myperl.pl"
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
>
> My $code = "`. .myenv`"
>
> Eval($code);
>
> Print $ENV{var1};
> Print $ENV{var2};
> Print $ENV{var3};
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> No Output.
>
> Can I just run this command in perl using backticks ? If yes, another
> problem is my perl's backticks takes generally the cshell and not bash, so
> there could be an error.
> Please advice.
>
> -Prassana
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