ok here's some background on the current situation: We have 2 instances of our application setup on 1 server, but using different ports to use the application. So, rather than having two different logins for each instance, we have created 2 different .profile (ofcourse they both contain different names) The .profile basically sets up the environment values for each instance.
I have a perl script that needs to be run on both instances..but I want to just have 1 version of the script, rather than duplicate the script on both instances. Also, some of the code within script is interrelated...for eg. I may want to call another script within this one, and use that information to do something else on the other instance. That is the reason, I want to source the .profile within the perl script...such that I want to change the environment half way through the perl script.
I hope this helps in your understanding of our problem. Sorry if i'm doing a bad job at explaining, but I'm really new to scripting.

In reply to Re^2: using .profile in perl by Anonymous Monk
in thread using .profile in perl by Anonymous Monk

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