Rich36,

I'm not quite understanding the flow here. Are you 

     1. reading in unix "shell" commands
     2. trying to "fill" the shell variables via perl
     3. execute the input via system, or backticks, or qx

That's pretty wild! I guess there's no changing the config to perl code? Oh well, worth a try. I think you'll need to set your environment and then execute the commands: 

$user = $ENV{USER};
$ENV{user} = $user; # Case sensitivity. Now $user should
                    # be visible to your script snippets

foreach $line (@lines) {
    system( $line );
}

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And of course - all normal danger caveats do apply.

-derby

In reply to Re: Interpolating variables from a file by derby
in thread Interpolating variables from a file by Rich36

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