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Set shell environment variables from within a perl scriptby reluctant_techie (Novice) |
on May 05, 2008 at 16:55 UTC ( [id://684685]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
reluctant_techie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hello! I am attempting to set a shell (bash) environment variable from within a Perl script but I have not been able to come up with a satisfactory solution. In particular, I am attempting to set the CVSROOT environment variable so that I can use the "system()" syntax to execute cvs commands. I had hoped the following syntax would work: It does not. Another solution would be to create a shell script on the fly which would contain a command to set the environment variable. My Perl script would then execute the shell script. This seems pretty messy. Is there a better solution? Thanks in advance!
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