This can't work. Perl is running as a child process. Parents can't
inherit the environments of their children. Environment settings can
only be propagated to children.
Torbjørn Lindahl wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> how can I set an environmental variable from within perl - so that it will
> be valid after the perl script has completed as well?
>
> i have done the following...
>
> $ENV{'MY_ENV_VAR'}="Some value";
>
> ...and in shell...
>
> echo $MY_ENV_VAR
>
> ...but no good.
>
> I also tried...
>
> system("export MY_ENV_VAR='Some value'");
>
> ...but didnt work either.
>
> Regards,
> Torbjørn Lindahl
>
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