Hi fellow monks!

I have a shell script (set_env.sh) which sets some variables. It is usually sourced from other shell scripts.

Now I have a perl script which needs these settings too. So usually I call my script like this: 

. ./set_env.sh
./myscript

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But I don't like this ;-) One way would be to use a wrapper script containing these 2 commands, but I don't like it too much.

So is there a way to get my script to call set_env.sh and use its settings?

My idea was to do it something like this (incomplete pseudocode) at the very beginning of the code of myscript 

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ( not defined $ENV{'environment_set'} ) {
    exec ". ./set_env.sh ; environment_set=1 ./myscript";
}

# script follows here

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Is there a cleaner way? What do you suggest?

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In reply to How to set (environment) variables for the script by Skeeve

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