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Re: the command - system ( "source ./profile") not workingby rgiskard (Hermit) |
on Jan 10, 2008 at 12:56 UTC ( [id://661611]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Without seeing your error, why dont you do some testing with absolute paths. like: system("source /home/perlmonkey/.profile"). For debugging purposes, I would suggest using the backtick approach to see any stdout: print `source /home/perlmonkey/.profile` Do note, your sourced profile will exist in the subshell you called it in. So to test it further you will have to do something like print `source .profile;echo $PATH` which assumes that there exists a path var in the shell. Hopefully your in some type of linux enviroment, otherwise the commands you were calling would be somewhat faulty. UPDATE:Take a look at the answer in the following node 616002 as it addresses the problem of sourcing a license which could be quite similar to your problem.
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