commandline 
`last.pl $source`;

#in last.pl

my $source = $ARGV[0];

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you can put it in the environment... (only works if you call last.pl from find.pl) 
$ENV{SOURCE} = $source;
`last.pl`;
#in last.pl
my $source = $ENV{SOURCE};

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pass it on STDIN 
open(LAST, "|last.pl") or die $!;
print LAST "$source";
close LAST;

#in last.pl
$source = <STDIN>;

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Those are probably the easiest/best ways... there are other ways, such as using a file, passing over a socket, shared memory, creating a dynamic link to last.pl named for the value of source and running the dynamic link, and then reading the value of $0 in last.pl (don't do that one). Many many ways.

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