I'm creating commands that I can execute by voice for my Mac. In order to do this, I want to create AppleScripts that call my perl script. For example, here's an AppleScript that will call a Perl script which moves files off the Desktop and into Documents folder:

do shell script "/Users/stevied/bin/clean_desktop.pl"

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The Perl script works fine when run from the command line, but when executing the script from my AppleScript, the modules I use aren't found and I get this error:

Can't locate Modern/Perl.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Moder
+n::Perl module) (@INC contains: /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-mult
+i-2level /Library/Perl/5.18 /Network/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-
+multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.18 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.18.2 
+/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/
+Perl/5.18 /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
+ /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18 .) at /Users/stevied/bin/clean_desk
+top.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/stevied/bi
+n/clean_desktop.pl line 3.

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I have perlbrew installed. The current shebang line for the perl script is #! /usr/bin/env perl. I tried adding the following line to my perl script:

/Users/stevied/perl5/lib/perl5;

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Running the AppleScript now yields this horrific looking error:

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _Perl_xs_handshake
  Referenced from: /Users/stevied/perl5/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-
+2level/auto/Mac/SystemDirectory/SystemDirectory.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: _Perl_xs_handshake
  Referenced from: /Users/stevied/perl5/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-
+2level/auto/Mac/SystemDirectory/SystemDirectory.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace

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Is there anything I can do to get this working?

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