On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like these environment variables to be made available to a
Perl script so that any system commands contained in the perl script
will inherit them. How do you do this in Perl?
If the variables are exported when
If the variables are exported when you call Perl, they will be
available inside Perl. And, when you call system, they will be
available for those processes as well. Are you having any specific
problems doing this? If you can't make it work, please send more
details on what exactly is not
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The variables are not exported when I call Perl. This is what I am
trying to do. How do I get those variables to be available to the
bash system commands within the script?
system(source ~/.keychain/hostname-sh; cmd);
One solution would be to source ~/.keychain/hostname-sh in the shell
before calling the perl script. That should work.
Ok, can't do this because end-users will not like the extra step.
Another one would be to source it before calling scp:
system (source ~/.keychain/hostname-sh;
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:00:13AM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote:
system(source ~/.keychain/hostname-sh; cmd);
Is this what you're looking for?
Yes, this works. Is there a way to only source the file once? There
are a bit over a dozen scp and ssh commands in the script.
Unfortunately
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