There are much, much better ways. The command you listed is enough to make most people cringe (myself included).

Passing the whole array as an argument on the command line will probably fail. There's simply a limit to how long the argument list can be, and I doubt it can have newlines.

Here's a quick solution (many others are possible):

Make the recieving script read from STDIN (ie. while(<>) { chomp; print; }).

Then instead of backtics, use open. 

# Note the | here. This allows you to write to your script
open(SCRIPTS, "| /tmp/scripts.pl") or die;
foreach my $line (@ARRAY) {
  print SCRIPTS $line . "\n";
}
close SCRIPTS;

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Hope this helps,

~J

In reply to Re: best way to pass data by jmanning2k
in thread best way to pass data by Anonymous Monk

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