I'm trying to write a script to setup environment variables depending on which environment the user wants to be in. However, it dies at the final line of code with this:
Can't exec ". /opt/lnpsite/nm02/scripts/setup_env": No such file or di +rectory at ./opSet.pl line 27, <STDIN> line 1. Cannot execute . /opt/lnpsite/nm02/scripts/setup_env: No such file or +directory

I'm not entirely sure why the code is dropping out there because I was able to copy and paste the "non-existant" directory and run it from the command line.

Anyway, here is the code. I cannot seem to figure out why it is not running.

#!/opt/perl5/bin/perl -w use strict; my @instances; my $i = 1; my $selection = 0; opendir OPHOME, "/opt/lnpsite" or die "Can't open /opt/lnpsite: $!\n"; my @files = sort(readdir(OPHOME)); foreach(@files){ if (m/(op|nm)\d{2}$/) { push(@instances, $_); } } print "\nAvailable Instances"; print "\n===================\n"; foreach(@instances) { print " $i. ",$_,"\n"; $i++; } print "\nSelect an instance and press enter: "; $selection = <STDIN>; chomp($selection); $selection = $selection - 1; my $conn = ". /opt/lnpsite/" . $instances[$selection] . "/scripts/setu +p_env"; print "$conn\n"; exec $conn $instances[$selection] or die "Cannot execute $conn: $!\n";

In reply to Unexpected die by peschkaj

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