Can anybody point me in the right direction here. I can execute the following commands just fine from the C shell but cannot run them from a perl script. I get the following error message:

perl export.pl
echo: No such file or directory.
status3 went wrong:256 at export.pl line 24.

The third command relies on the first two commands to set $data_root. When I run echo $data_root from the shell after running the script I get:

data_root: Undefined variable.

Thank you so much for your help. 
#! /usr/bin/perl
$program = "/bin/csh ";
$status1 = system("$program source /exlibris/aleph/a16_1/aleph/proc/un
+set_lib_env");
die "status1 went wrong:$?" unless $status1 ==0;
$status2 = system("$program source `/exlibris/aleph/a16_1/aleph/exe/de
+v_aleph gpo01`/gpo01/prof_library");
die "status2 went wrong:$?" unless $status2 ==0;
$status3 = system("$program echo $data_root");
die "status3 went wrong:$?" unless $status3 ==0;

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In reply to Perl system calls in csh Not executing! by Anonymous Monk

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