Hmm! Am I right in assuming you want to source those shell scripts in order to set environment variables or declare shell functions so they will be inherited by your Perl process and any child processes you spawn?

If so, I don't think it can be done, but I would love for someone to correct me.

However, if your "my.ini" is just a confusingly named Perl script, it's possible to run it using require "my.ini"; but I would definitely not recommend this.

Instead, use proper modules. They're not hard to write, and they will save you lots of backtracking later.