Thanks for the quick reply James,
How would I set this up in a script and have all the other scripts be able to use it? -----Original Message----- From: Kipp, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 7:33 AM To: 'Steve Main'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Environment setup you can use the %ENV hash example: $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "/opt/oracle/product/9.0.1"; > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Main [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Environment setup > > > Hello list, > > I have an Oracle framework written in Korn shell scripts that I am > attempting to re-write in Perl. I am having trouble figuring out > how to "source" in environment variables. For the shell > scripts, I have > a script that sets all of the global variables and then each script in > the framework "sources" that script so that all the scripts > start with the same environment. The gist of what I need is to > keep the global variables (like the log directory) in one place > and not in each script. Can anyone tell me how this can > be accomplished in Perl? > > thanks for you time > > Steve > >
