I need to execute ". <some-file> from within a Perl script. he problem is, is that it doesn't execute using system, ` `, or exec.

Just in case someone may ask, "test.out" does get opened and written to, this code executes as root, "oraenv" is an executable with sufficient privileges.

Here's the code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my ( $ScriptName, $TAG );
my $file       = "/export/home/scratch/test.out";
my $oratabFile = "/var/opt/oracle/oratab";
my $date       = `/bin/date`;

open ORATAB, "<$oratabFile" or die "$!\n";
open FILE,   ">>$file"      or die "$!\n";

my ( $host, $sid, $type ) = split ( '\_', $ENV{NB_ORA_PC_SCHED} );

while ( my $oraLine = <ORATAB> ) {
    chomp $oraLine;
    my ( $oraSID, $oraHome, $oraType ) = split ( '\:', $oraLine );

    if ( $oraSID = $sid ) {

        $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = $oraHome;
        $ScriptName       = "$oraSID" . '_' . "$type.sh";
        $TAG              = $ENV{NB_ORA_PC_SCHED};
    }
}

$ENV{ORAENV_ASK} = "NO";
$ENV{ORACLE_SID} = $sid;

`export ORAENV_ASK ORACLE_SID ORACLE_HOME`;

system(". /apps/oracle/bin/oraenv");

####################################
#                                  #
# Begin loop which will determine  #
# what type of backup to run       #
#                                  #
####################################

print FILE "\n\n\n";
print FILE "$ENV{NB_ORA_PC_SCHED} is a COLD backup";
print FILE "\n\n\n";
print FILE "====================================================\n";
print FILE "Printing environmental vars for troubleshooting\n";
print FILE "====================================================\n";
print FILE "\n\n\n";
print FILE `/usr/ucb/printenv`;
print FILE "\n\n\n";
print FILE "====================================================\n";
print FILE "End Troubleshooting Section\n";
print FILE "====================================================\n";
print FILE "\n\n\n";

close ORATAB;
close FILE;

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