in reply to sourcing an external shell file

Don't mean to skirt the issue, but why not schedule a shell-script?
#!/bin/sh source envfile perlscript.pl
Just to make life simpler... :)

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Re: Re: sourcing an external shell file
by snafu (Chaplain) on Aug 01, 2001 at 00:13 UTC
    hahahaha....If you weren't an anonymous monk I'd ++ you here. ;) Sometimes, we just short the shell a bit too much.

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