in reply to unix command with system

If you're talking about simple variables, try this in your ~/.profile:

ONE=2233 TWO=3434 export ONE TWO

And than use the following in your script:

my $value = "$ENV{ONE}/$ENV{TWO}"; print "my value is $value\n";

Update: I figured, you wanted to get "2233/3434" as a result (as in a directory tree), but if you want what neuroball suggests below, please ignore my suggestion, as far as the quotes go ;)

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