I hope this post finds you doing well. I'm having problems passing CLI arguments from one *.pl to another. Here's what my code looks like so far: Script one that calls script two: 
#!/bin/perl

use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
@keywords = $query->keywords;
$timeframe = &trim(uc(@keywords[0]));
$sp_action = &trim(uc(@keywords[1]));

use LWP::Simple;
$rundir = '/opt/oracle/CSMDB/LoadFiles';
$exe_dir = $rundir . "/Monthly/current_load";
$actual_cmd = "files_present.pl";
system($exe_dir . "/" .$actual_cmd . " " . $exe_dir . " " . $sp_action
+ );

Second *.pl script called by script above:

#!/bin/perl

use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
@keywords = $query->keywords;
$exe_dir = @keywords[0];
$time_frame = @keywords[1];

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Incidentally, I call script one by typing ..... ./loader.pl monthly RUN_CAP_LOAD and it successfully receives the CLI parameters I send it. When the execution gets to the second script I get a hang and a message saying ... "(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)" and the script(s) hang. Why is the second script NOT picking up the parameters it gets passed from the system line in the first script. Thanks in advance for your help.

Retitled by holli from 'I'm sure this is really simple ... just not for me'.

In reply to passing arguments between scripts by jeastman

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