Why does it always seem that I always have to come back and correct my stupid mistakes because they're never what I thought was the problem?

As it turns out, the problem is not with $ENV{PATH} = $ENV{PATH} . ":/usr/local/openssl/bin"; after all. When followed by system("printenv");, /usr/local/openssl/bin is in there at the end, and if followed by system("openssl");, it runs openssl.

So what the heck happens with my code? which is a shell built-in function, so it totally ignores the $ENV{PATH} in perl, and re-reads (or otherwise pulls out of its ass) my .cshrc, which doesn't have the "right" PATH. So, now I'm writing my own which (in perl), to get around this issue.

In reply to Re: Adding a directory to $ENV{PATH} by amelinda
in thread Adding a directory to $ENV{PATH} by amelinda

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