You cannot simply reference a Perl-variable in a shell-script.

You have to find a way to pass the *value* of the variable from Perl to the shell.

The way via command-subsitution I showed above is one way to do this.

Perl prints the value to STDOUT and the shell reads it into a shell-variable (which is different from the perl-variable).

Now if you have the perl-script directly embedded in your shell-script as a here-doc then you will have all sorts of problems properly escaping stuff, which is why I suggested above that you put all the Perl-code into a script of it's own that you can call anything you like - I called it simply "script.pl" for illustration but what you have to do is to move the perl-code from the shell-script into a perl-script file and call that file via command-substitution.

In reply to Re^7: pass perl variable to shell script by morgon
in thread pass perl variable to shell script by arthurs

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