You might want to reconsider your design, since embedding Perl scripts in shell scripts has a couple of tricky aspects and can make maintenance a bit less fun. The easiest might be to put your Perl script into a separate file and just run that, or even inverting the design, that is, write most of your script in Perl, and then call external commands via system or a module like IPC::System::Simple.

Having said that, two relatively easy ways to pass shell script variables into Perl: Pass the variables as arguments on the command line of perl and then in your script access them via @ARGV, or, if the variables are visible in the environment, use the %ENV hash to access them.

I'm noticing if I try to assign a variable in perl like $dog, the shell script gives me an error.

What's the error message? There is no $dog in your sample code.

In reply to Re: assigning a perl variable in shell by Anonymous Monk
in thread assigning a perl variable in shell by scheidr

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