Frankly, I don't see enough information here to offer substantive advice... so let me raise some more questions:
- Why are you calling the shell script from Perl? Does it return a value or values needed by the Perl script?
- What do you expect to happen after the shell script terminates?
- Have you read the documentation for system and exec? (and consider also the capabilities in IPC::Run as suggested by keszler.
You also need to tell us the answers to colwellj's questions.
Then, perhaps (likely) we can be of more direct assistance.
Update: Oh, yes -- is there some reason why a direct approach -- translating your shell script to Perl (which can do almost anything your shell can) -- is not feasible?
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